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...Sharks recently sealed a deal with Adidas worth around $400,000, which includes a one-month training trip to the U.S. A new Taiwanese-owned team allowed into the league this year, the privately held Sina Lions, is raising the bar in terms of shrewd professionalism. Co-owner Daniel Tu managed to drum up $1 million in sponsorships in the Lions' first season. Still, the U.S.-educated Tu, former president of STAR TV in Taiwan, and his partner Daniel Chiang, chairman of China's largest Internet portal, Sina.com, say teams must be given more autonomy if China is to kick...
...located below the Brattle Theatre and decorated with a mural from the classic Orson Welles film (493-6617, M-Sa 10am-1am). The Hong King is a den of sinful pleasures and dumplings. Try the legendary “Scorpion Soup” for an alcoholic treat (Th-Tu 493-7191, (617) 12pm-2am). Also, there’s an awesome party in Thayer House—with beer...
...they are not the only kind, and not all these foreign films are from Europe. Alfonso Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mama Too!), a hit at festivals this fall and scheduled for a March release in the U.S., is a fast, playful Mexican comedy about two teens and an older woman. Julio Medem's Sex and Lucia is a steamy Spanish thriller. Michael Haneke's Franco-Austrian The Piano Teacher, which earned acting laurels for Isabelle Huppert and her costar this year at Cannes, is a fevered, fascinating, often goofy tale of sadomasochism. Nor is the form...
...Although the cause of the crash remains to be determined, U.S. officials have reportedly suggested that the Tupolev TU-154 that went down off Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula may have been hit by a surface-to-air missile accidentally fired by a Ukrainian air defense battery during a military training exercise being held nearby...
...Last month's murders in Nanhai are especially worrying for the community because the perpetrators may have been Taiwanese taking advantage of the relative lawlessness on the mainland. Chinese authorities say their prime suspects are Tu Ching-shui, 54, a convicted criminal from southern Taiwan, and his two sons. Reports in the local press say a dying Yeh, lying on the floor of his factory, used his own blood to scribble the Chinese characters for Ching-shui, only partially completing the surname Tu. Police say Tu had recently threatened the pair at gunpoint in a failed attempt to extort...