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Finally, the NCAA Tournament is over.I write this with the utmost relief. Critics and professional sports writers thought this year’s tournament a comparative dud, devoid of drama and first-round upsets. An Elite Eight that featured three No.1 vs. No. 2 matchups and a No. 1 vs...
A month after the Athens Olympics, Hong Kong entertainment agency Emperor Entertainment Group offered Tian over $1.68 million to join the firm as an athlete-entertainer. Tian shot several television commercials, earning $140,000 in just two months' work, local media reports say. He and his then girlfriend, Guo Jingjing...
The 28-year-old has spent the last couple of years attempting to win back his place on the national team and secure a spot for the Olympics. He publicly announced that he would cease his commercial activities and curtailed his public appearances. But without admitting that what he did...
Rogers' large London-based firm, Richard Rogers Partnership, has continued to make buildings, like the Bordeaux Law Courts, that are imaginative without being willfully eccentric. Notwithstanding that he's Lord Rogers - the life peerage came in 1996 - Rogers is also a confirmed political progressive. At his firm the directors make...
NOT LONG AFTER DAVID Letterman discovered him in a student film, Calvert DeForest, reinvented as Larry (Bud) Melman, introduced the comic's first-ever late-night show on NBC in 1982. The earnest ex--file clerk went on to become Dave's fumbling, inadvertently hilarious lucky charm. Before retiring in...