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Cheryl L. Mainland ’04 and Adam L. Hall
...couple met in the late fall of 2002 at a panel on international business at HBS where Hall was speaking. Mainland asked him out for coffee and this Monday, the couple said “I do” at an intimate outdoor garden ceremony near Boston...
...couple will spend a week in India in Dubai, followed by a week-long safari in Tanzania, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, and capping off their month-long sojourn with sailing off the coast of Zanzibar. As for the wedding proposal, Hall remained close to home and proposed to Mainland on the Weeks footbridge...
When Mao Zedong's Communist revolution completed its sweep of the mainland in 1949, the oft-asked question in Washington was who had "lost" China. Former American spy, diplomat and straight shooter James Lilley argues in his sweeping memoir China Hands that this historical puzzler is a red herring: America never had China, and the very idea is counterproductive. To influence China, America first has to respect that the vast land has its own interests and ways. Lilley knows. He was born in Qingdao, the son of an American oil executive, and China has been the center of his life...
...Phone Home Chinese cell-phone company Kejian paid $3.2 million to put its name on the jerseys of English Premier League club Everton through the 2003-04 season. Kejian doesn't sell products in Britain, but Chinese consumers love Everton's mainland-born midfielder Li Tie (below, left). For a New Year's Day game last year, 360 million Chinese watched Everton take on Manchester City, which boasts its own mainland star, defender Sun Jihai. Never before had so many people in one country watched a league soccer match...