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...commissioner David Stern has already executed a beautiful pivot move into China, where, thanks in part to Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, hoops is hotter than Sichuan cooking. There's still work to be done in Europe, even though it is now a source of many NBA players, including seven Frenchmen and six Slovenes. Before the season, the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns played exhibition games in Germany, a challenging NBA country, as part of a four-team, five-country full-court press of Europe -Italy, Spain, France and Russia were also hosts of training camps and games...
...stopped worrying about my stats was the day I started winning. Everyone is still going to double- and triple-team me, and when they do that, I just make my guys better. One of my rookies asked me [after a preseason game against Houston], "Damn, Yao Ming is 7 ft. 6 in., and they double you?" I said, "Yeah, that's cause...
...SIMPLY MING PBS, CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS "Fusion" food often means one condescending thing: Northern European cuisine fuses with bits of another, subordinated culture. Ming Tsai gives all world foods equal footing and pairs them unexpectedly. In the first show of the new season, Asia meets Mexico with a soy- and sesame-laced mole sauce; later he creates a Mediterranean-Chinese tapenade. Each episode uses one recipe--for a rub, sauce, paste and so forth--as the base of several dishes, a starting point from which the home cook can improvise. Competent and low-key in an era of high-decibel...
...Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian is seeing red these days, he can blame Shih Ming-teh. Shih was once chairman of Chen's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). But for weeks now he has been leading crimson-clad demonstrators in protest to force the President to resign over corruption allegations against him, his aides and his relatives (they deny any wrongdoing). Shih, 65, spoke with Time's Natalie Tso about Chen, Taiwan's democracy, and his "red revolution...
...like the only good thing going for us." HSIAO BI-KHIM, Taiwan legislator, on New York Yankee Chien-Ming Wang. The Tainan-born pitching ace, who tied for the most regular-season wins in the Major Leagues and won the Yankees' first playoff game last week, is a national hero at a time when Taiwan is wracked by ongoing protests against President Chen Shui-bian...