Word: sharked
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...basketball midget. But a full-court press by the state athletic commission showed China's determination to break into the sport. The first generation, including Wang's basketball-playing parents, set the ball in motion. Today, 200 million Chinese play hoops and delight in the exploits of Big Shark (Shaquille O'Neal), the Letter Deliverer (Karl Malone) and One Cent (Penny Hardaway). China even began touting its trio of homegrown goliaths?Wang, Yao Ming and Menk Batere?as the Walking Great Wall...
...noted in the brief obituary you published on pool shark "Fast Eddie" Parker [MILESTONES, Feb. 19], I disagree with Parker's claim that author Walter Tevis, my late husband, used Parker as the model for his character Fast Eddie Felson in his novel The Hustler (1959). More than a few pool sharks have claimed to have been the inspiration for Felson in the years since the book was published and the movie released. My husband invented his characters. As Walter said, he gave the character of pool player Felson attributes fairly common to any pool player: "Some charm, some nerve...
...school, killing two of his fellow students and wounding 13 others. Further afield, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon completed the appointments to his new cabinet, and 60 people died when a bridge collapsed in Portugal. Meanwhile, in Palm Beach County, Fl. a dolphin which had been rescued from a shark attack last year was returned to the sea after recovering from its injuries...
CMDR. SCOTT WADDLE As facts surface, sub skipper has sinking feeling, hires civilian shark for lawyer and delays inquiry...
...that's the irony. Even if the anti-usury activists get everything they want, many ordinary Italians will still be choking on high-interest debts. Confesercenti, an association of retailers, reckons that about 120,000 Italian shops are in the clutches of loan sharks, or strozzini-literally, stranglers. A special commission has been set up to fight the loan sharks, who make billions of dollars a year off the backs of debtors. The strozzini have thrived because of weak competition from legitimate lenders. Banks rarely allow overdrafts or unsecured loans, for example. For small businesses in particular, a loan shark...