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...profile fan. Davis says NBA superstar LeBron James asked him during a game, "Yo, B.D., why do your shoes look better than everyone else's?" The answer - a team of young, talented designers working for a Chinese company that has the cash to sign up an NBA star - could usher in China's first global apparel brand. As Li Ning's slogan says, "Anything is possible...
...journalism is a career path often overlooked and, in some respects, neglected altogether. Although traditional media forms—including print newspapers like this one—may become obsolete in the years ahead, we cannot stress enough the importance of eager and intelligent young people who can usher the field of journalism into the next generation and guarantee its continued relevance to society. As members of a news organization ourselves, we at The Crimson could not have asked for a more inspiring speaker than Christiane Amanpour...
...called for the banning of the Koran and a halt on immigration from Muslim countries - all policies likely to create new frictions with the Muslim world and even alienate the Netherlands from its European allies. If Wilders were to be part of a future government, it could usher in a crisis of credibility in Dutch politics, says Ko Colijn from the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael. "The outside world does not understand Dutch politics at the moment," Colijn says. "We will lose credibility on the global stage...
...underrepresented in any number of realms, from home sales to small-business loans. One of the largest leaps in the Census' racial scheme came in 2000 when, for the first time, respondents were allowed to check more than one race box. The change was celebrated by those hoping to usher in an era of postracial America and assailed by those fearing the weakening of civil rights enforcement...
...operating from the Bollywood capital of Mumbai were limited by relatively few outlets; in 2005, there were only 13,000 single-screen cinemas in a country with 1.2 billion people. But India's real estate boom and 9% economic growth rate (it has now backed down to 7%) helped usher in a herd of multiplexes - and new profits for U.S. players. American studios now estimate that 65% of their earnings come from screenings at multiplexes. Hollywood films, which only cashed in on 1% of the total Indian market 10 years ago, now skim 7% of that growing market...