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...present at the creation of China's economic miracle, and they intend to ride it to riches, baijiu and rabbit ears notwithstanding. Clissold's memoir of his years with Perkowski-- 1995 to 2002--is an instant classic. The best "business" book previously written about China is probably Jim Mann's Beijing Jeep, an account of the ill-fated auto joint venture in China's early days of experimenting with capitalism. Mr. China (Harper Business; 252 pages) joins it at the top. Clissold, despite being a banker (now working at Goldman Sachs in Beijing), writes wonderfully. The book is sharply observed...
...Schuyler O. Mann ’05’s love nest is inconspicuous in leopard print. And that’s just the sheets: As a sophomore, Mann constructed a loft, ladder, and queen-sized bed frame from scratch to give him and his roommate more space. Eventually, the ladder thing got old. Today, his room in Claverly features the same wooden bed frame—now sawed in half so that it sits on the floor. He’s added an air mattress to go along with the leopard print sheets, which were, he admits, a gift...
...Bryant and Mike Tyson). He wore tailored suits, drove custom cars and slept with many women, white women in particular. His boxing wins drew death threats and caused riots, but it was his sex life that most outraged whites, and many blacks. In 1913 he was tried under the Mann Act on charges of transporting a girlfriend across state lines for immoral purposes; he was convicted and went into exile and dissolution...
...jawbone to receive the implants. When the surgical guide is removed, abutments are placed on the tops of the implants, and the final prosthesis is fixed to the abutments. The downside: this and other new implant systems still cost about the same as traditional implants. --By Arnold Mann...
...turned down every film role for a year. "I had something to fall back on," he says, referring to the lucrative stand-up tour he did in 2001. "But I believe that with acting, people will find you if you have talent. And I have talent." Sure enough, Michael Mann eventually saw Any Given Sunday and hired Foxx to play the worshipful corner man, Drew (Bundini) Brown, in Ali. He drew plaudits--and more bad scripts. Then Taylor Hackford called...