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...TIME: Of the players now in the NBA, who is your role model...
...Beijing's benefit. By allowing Hong Kong people to choose their own leaders, China would be praised by the global community of democracies. And that would give the mainland time to work out its own political reforms with less pressure from outside. Hong Kong could provide a model to show what sort of democracy can work best on Chinese soil. And the freedom to pick its own leaders would undoubtedly aid Hong Kong. Under the present system, loyalty to the central government is a more important criterion than loyalty to Hong Kong. That's how an incompetent leader like Tung...
...There are other reasons to steer clear. In its IPO filing, Blackstone was very blunt about how erratic profit can be. That may be the nature of the private equity business model - buying existing companies and then spending years fixing them up before reselling and realizing gains - but it also makes it next to impossible to model future earnings and thus come up with a fair stock price, says Brian Hamilton, CEO of Sageworks, a financial analysis firm that specializes in private companies going public...
...home to lead battles to unify Italy, was an international icon both during and after his lifetime. Though historians debate his tactical skills and political sense, few question his integrity, courage or charisma, which were chronicled for decades by writers from around the world. As such, Garibaldi remains a model that transcends time and ideology. As it happens, Massoud cut a physical figure similar to the Italian, graceful and bearded, and they shared a nickname: Garibaldi was known as the Lion of Caprera, for the island off Sardinia where he lived his later years. Though different in many other ways...
When Reed finally walks on stage in jeans and a sleeveless khaki-colored T-shirt, he looks - at least from the upper ranks of the auditorium - more like a Gap model than a 65-year old rock 'n' roll legend. He is joined onstage by an orchestra and a girl's choir, while a video-clip of a Berlin bar is projected onto the backrop. The atmosphere is tense; expectations are high. Does Reed still have "it" or has he "lost it", as the character Sick Boy maintains in the movie Trainspotting. Do these songs still resonate in a Berlin...