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...city's largest single taxpayer, accounting for 11.5% of total tax revenue last year. A nonprofit that gives away its surplus as charity, the club has been one of Hong Kong's most munificent benefactors, with its donations funding schools, hospitals and construction of such landmarks as Victoria Park, the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and Hong Kong Stadium. Last year, after the SARS epidemic ravaged the territory, the HKJC contributed $64 million to open a center for infectious-disease control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fading Down The Stretch? | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...slept in the railroad station and bought a $3 standing-room ticket behind home plate. The Sox tied the game in the ninth, and Rudy York won it in the 10th with a blast to the last row of the bleachers?and I was the only one in the park yelling. I'm happy for today's Boston kids with their cell phones and painted faces. But most of them can't even remember 1986, let alone 1946. They have never known the character-building advantages of defeat. I've developed enough character to last the rest of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...Every woman I've asked has said no, often with an incredulous head-shake; every man has said yes. One fellow - we'll call him Steve - told me of a time he was driving across the Brooklyn Bridge and spotted a luscious woman on the walkway. He sped ahead, parked by a bench in a park just below the Bridge exit and sat there waiting for her, ready to make blithe conversation, as if he hadn't just executed an Earnhardt in hopes his impromptu romantic gambit would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whatever Happened to Movie Sex? | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

...Officers observed three people acting suspiciously in John F. Kennedy Park. Officers confiscated a glass pipe and a small white rock believed to be cocaine. A wants and warrants check turned up negative. Officers issued the individuals a trespass warning for all University property...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 11/23/2004 | See Source »

Vincent van Gogh's great-grandnephew is shot and stabbed to death in broad daylight on the edge of a city park. Streets fill with tens of thousands of angry protesters. Islamic schools are attacked and mosques vandalized and set ablaze--with a severed pig's head left as a calling card outside one of them. Can all that really be happening in the calm, tolerant, liberal Netherlands? The answer is yes. Minutes after the Nov. 2 slaying of firebrand filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who recently aired a controversial movie on Islam's alleged abuse of women, a Muslim with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aftermath Of A Murder | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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