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...series romanticizes its subject. For the most part, News's professionals, like The West Wing's, are "flawed" merely by being virtuous workaholics who sometimes make pragmatic choices. They spend most of their screen time chasing major stories, not celebrity arrests and missing-persons sagas. And by focusing on shoe-leather journalists, the six episodes sent to critics ignore the real mainstays of today's cable news: the daily aneurysms of O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, James Carville and the rest of the yak pack. If the show manages to come back for a second season, the producers could better capture...
...Ning Sports Goods, China's largest athletic-shoe and apparel company, built brand awareness the same way Nike did--by getting a revered athlete to hawk its products. But while Nike had to hand over millions in endorsement fees to basketball superstar Michael Jordan, Li Ning Sports Goods just put its eponymous chief executive in front of the cameras. Li Ning, a former gymnast, won the hearts of millions of Chinese when he took six medals--three of them gold--at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Since he founded his company in 1988, Li, 39, has doubled as its spokesman...
...round, but cash itself isn't moving as it used to. A fall in privatizations and cross-border mergers has led to a 56% plunge in foreign direct investment in the world's richest nations, says an O.E.C.D. report. BOTTOM LINES "The fear is this market has more shoes than Imelda Marcos." Charles Reinhard, Lehman Brothers strategist, asked when the stock market's next shoe will drop...
FRANCE On June 12 antiterrorist police arrested five men from Pakistan and North Africa they believe may have had contact with or provided logistical support for alleged "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in his attempt to blow up a Paris-to-Miami flight last December...
...their Cup success. But Nakata is the team's reigning International Man of Mystery. He carries himself as coolly as a Milan runway model and betrays barely an emotion, even after scoring a goal as he did against Tunisia on Friday when his header deflected off the goalkeeper's shoe and trickled into the net. His outward calm hides an inner fire. "I desperately wanted to score a goal," says Nakata. "We have a mission to show the rest of the world how good Japanese soccer really...