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...squad for "violating team regulations concerning commercial activities ... and producing a negative influence on society and the preparation for the 2008 Olympics." Translation? Not only was the athlete spending too much time on the celebrity circuit instead of the diving board, but he wasn't sharing his recent multi-million-dollar sponsorship deal with the Chinese sports administration. Under its rules, around half of an athlete's commercial revenue goes to the governing body, while the rest is divided among the athlete, his coaches, trainers, doctors and anyone else who can lay a claim to his success. China's sports...
...have occupied a no-go zone around the vast Panguna copper mine. The villagers who fall inside his territory are denied essential services, and face a fragile security situation. Blundering by corporate jet into this dysfunctional society came an eccentric Australian businessman. His arrival brought hollow promises of multi-million-dollar business deals and benign health programs, and coincided with Musingku's growing influence over Ona. Says the head of the U.N. Observer Mission to Bougainville, Tor Stenbock: "Ona has lost touch with reality...
...management company is perhaps Harvard’s most vital and yet most controversial arm. While recent returns—21.1 percent last fiscal year—have drawn the envy of Wall Street, critics continue to assail Harvard’s aggressive investments, not to mention the multi-million-dollar salaries paid out each year to its top endowment managers...
...Pintupi people's return to their land from the government settlement of Papunya. They brought with them to Kintore, 500 km west of Alice Springs, a lifetime of dreamings, but also something new: Papunya Tula Artists, the movement begun by Geoffrey Bardon in 1971, which is today a multi-million-dollar industry and the community's main provider. Now a whiteboard in the Kintore shed lists their toil (Johnny - 4 by 2; Eileen - 107 by 28; Joseph - 4 by 3 ? ) and linen, gesso and cadmium yellow to be ordered in. But in short supply this morning are the artists: only...
...first they had important matters to discuss—like how to shut down eight privately owned, multi-million-dollar social clubs created before the First World...