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There are, perhaps, few sights more intellectually fulfilling than watching a line of budding legal minds living and breathing the Second Amendment to the Constitution. The skill and accuracy with which many of the law students fired suggested that while the gun club might be new to HLS, a passion for guns certainly is not. Many of my new shooting friends said they either grew up hunting for sport or had some other experience to explain their proficiency—one enthusiast said he spent one summer shooting deer for the forestry service...
...these days. With the first round of France's presidential election set for April 21, the incumbent went into offensive mode last week by announcing his intention to seek re-election. And he did it in true Chirac style: big on gesture, short on ideas. "I am driven by passion," he said on national television. "I love France, and I love the French. I want to be the candidate of union and renewal...
...courtside drama is CBA chief Xin Lancheng, a fortysomething Communist Party apparatchik who "wouldn't go to a basketball game unless it was his job," according to one industry insider. Xin, who missed the first half of the season to attend Communist Party school, admits to no great passion for hoops. "If I had things my way, I would be a full-time painter of traditional Chinese landscapes," he says. But he defends the system with the ardor of a Red Guard. "The CBA should earn the money and distribute it equally to the clubs," he says. "This...
...Their passion is modern art, and they donated $25,000 to the Menil Collection, one of the city's contemporary-art museums. They were accumulating edgy contemporary art--not just for themselves but also for Enron's new 40-story Cesar Pelli skyscraper. Lea took charge of the firm's art purchases, which included sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Martin Puryear. The Fastows had plans to be big givers; they channeled $4.5 million, reaped from a $25,000 investment in one of his deals, to the Fastow Family Foundation...
...bonafide pop-culture phenomena. "Chinese people have a problem when they think about the past," Huang explains of his merging of East and West, old and new. "They think like people from the past. I'm trying to interpret history through the filter of a modern person." Considering the passion of his mission, it's hard to imagine that this delicate-looking man with lithe limbs and narrow torso?he looks genetically engineered for arabesques?almost didn't become a dancer...