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...dribble two balls at a time?perhaps the Olympians of 2020 and beyond. OUR DREAM IS TO BECOME A SHANGHAI SHARK, reads a banner strung on the fence, but it is out of date; the success of the Young Giant has trumped domestic glory. Now, says a coach named Wu, "the NBA is the ultimate goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be Ming | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

...Wu surveys the basketball court and confesses, "I don't see another Yao Ming here. We x-ray their hands when they're quite little, and from the length of the bones we can predict how tall they will grow to be. They all have the dream, but the fact is, we don't have anyone here who is going to grow above 2 meters." That's nearly 0.3 meter shorter than the orbiting Rocket rookie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be Ming | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

...This lad's mother is very worried," Wu says, pointing to a boy named Xu. "Both his parents played for city teams, and the mother, especially, wants him to be another Yao. But the X ray shows that he will be only 2.05 meters at the most, so there is no hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be Ming | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

...It’s helpful to contextualize the arguments into people,” Mather Tutor Janson Wu told those in attendance. “People live, breathe and feel these experiences every...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tutors Sponsor Talk On Tolerance | 12/17/2002 | See Source »

...revolutionary soldier's sojourn in a drought-ravaged village along the Yellow River. Zhang's bold camera work earned the film international attention and ushered in a new wave of Chinese cinema. Together with Chen (who later went on to direct Farewell My Concubine) and classmates Tian Zhuangzhuang and Wu Tianming, Zhang became a star of the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese directors. When he watches Yellow Earth now, Zhang says, he is embarrassed by the naked ambition of his cinematography. "It's so showy," he laughs. "You can see just how hard I was trying to prove myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Safe | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

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