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...Every Olympics has its underdog stories. At the 2008 Beijing Games, one of the most memorable was not on the track but in the boardroom of a Chinese sportswear company named after its founder, Li Ning - a triple gymnastics gold medalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. While the then 18-year-old firm wasn't an official sponsor, it used careful planning to outflank its deep-pocketed overseas rivals by picking likely medalists to outfit with Li Ning - branded gear (official sponsor Adidas had the rights to provide uniforms for medal and other ceremonies, but athletes were free...
...material, in seven colors," he says. "It took us three years to sell them all." The experience made him see that it might be smarter to outsource design and production and concentrate on retail. He envisaged a chain of Li Ning shops, capitalizing on the goodwill that his name retained as memory of the Seoul snafu faded. "I realized if I ran the company by myself it wouldn't be a success," he says. So he began taking on expert advisers as the 1990s began, and over the next two decades expanded the business to more than 7,000 stores...
...Name Is Khan Irrfan Khan is certainly among the finest actors of India, but not the one and only [Feb. 15]. Kamal Hasan, Paresh Rawal and Tabu are just a few other names worthy of mention. While talented stars from the Indian regional-language film industry continuously migrate to Bollywood, I doubt any of Bollywood's megastars will ever fully migrate to Hollywood. India's truly successful actors have no time to think about branching out into Hollywood - their domestic demands are just too great. Khan could because he had time to spare. Had Khan had better looks...
...charge sales tax, which means that - financially, anyway - the city isn't hurting from their presence. In at least one way, they're even driving business: a dispensary security guard - an off-duty cop whose wife uses marijuana to alleviate symptoms of fibromyalgia and who declined to give his name - says he is starting a security business that specializes in protecting pot shops. "There's a niche," he says with a shrug...
...conceit of Abraham Lincoln is that Grahame-Smith - his very name is a mashup! - has come into possession of Lincoln's secret diaries detailing his life as a stalker of vampires. As a frontiersboy, Lincoln loses his mother to the undead and swears lifelong vengeance. A giant among men - he was 6 ft. 4 in. (1.9 m) tall - Lincoln adopts the ax, that most American of edged weapons, as the tool of his trade, hiding it inside his signature long black coat. (See pictures of Hollywood vampires...