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...called and asked if I really wanted to have my tickets sent to my home in New Jersey,” said Lewis Z. Liu ’08. “I said no, so they mailed them to my Harvard mailbox...

Author: By Allison A. Frost, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concert Tickets Nearly Skip Town | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

...It’s rather like kindergarten, where you actually get to do things and ask as many questions as you want,” said Yi Liu...

Author: By Victoria Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: With Stars As Their Guides | 10/27/2004 | See Source »

Nike swung into action even before most Chinese knew they had a new hero. The moment hurdler Liu Xiang became the country's first Olympic medalist in a short-distance speed event--he claimed the gold with a new Olympic record in the 110-m hurdles on Aug. 28--Nike launched a television advertisement in China showing Liu destroying the field and superimposed a series of questions designed to set nationalistic teeth on edge. "Asians lack muscle?" asked one. "Asians lack the will to win?" Then came the kicker, as Liu raised his arms above the trademark Swoosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: How Nike Figured Out China | 10/24/2004 | See Source »

...plan of former Communist Party chief and former President Jiang Zemin, who took credit for Beijing's winning bid in 2001. The Olympic projects, it was hoped, would mark China's economic growth and proclaim its arrival as a world power. Now times have changed. Last week Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Olympic-organizing committee, scrapped half the planned stadiums in a demonstration of what he called "the principle of thrift." But in Beijing, observers of the always opaque Chinese leadership are wondering if the new policy smacks of political infighting as much as it does of economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First or Equals? | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...stayed ahead of Kenya's Bernard Lagat seemingly by dint of facial contortion alone to capture a long-elusive Olympic win in the 1,500-m race. Or Birgit Fischer, Germany's 42-year-old kayaker who won her eighth gold in a 24-year Olympic career. Or Liu Xiang, the first Chinese to strike gold in a short-distance track event, when he ran an Olympic-record 12.91 seconds in the 110-m hurdles. Or, of course, the most high wattage of them all, American golden boy Michael Phelps, whose devotion to PlayStation didn't keep him from winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beaten, But Not Defeated | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

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