Word: xin
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...SHIYI and ZHANG XIN China's Condo Couple...
...Cast as The Heavy in the courtside drama is CBA chief Xin Lancheng, a fortysomething Communist Party apparatchik who "wouldn't go to a basketball game unless it was his job," according to one industry insider. Xin, who missed the first half of the season to attend Communist Party school, admits to no great passion for hoops. "If I had things my way, I would be a full-time painter of traditional Chinese landscapes," he says. But he defends the system with the ardor of a Red Guard. "The CBA should earn the money and distribute it equally...
...Even Xin's critics credit him with helping to develop the sport through initiatives such as this year's founding of the women's professional league, the WCBA. And his point about mismanagement is right on the mark. Most team owners are neophytes when it comes to running a sports franchise. Li Yaomin, a retired journalist, admits he knew zip about basketball?or business for that matter?when he was assigned to be general manager for the Shanghai team...
...While it's unlikely the government will be passing the ball to the private sector anytime soon, even Xin acknowledges that the CBA can improve. "We are desperately studying the NBA," says Xin, who attended the U.S. league's annual All-Star game this month in Philadelphia. If he closely studied the hoopla surrounding one of the sport's biggest hype-fests, Chinese basketball just might learn some dazzling new moves...
...This is nothing new for Shaolin?the macho fighting monks were flouting dietary laws as early as the Ming dynasty, but abbot Yong Xin, anxious about Shaolin's newly pristine image, finds his prodigal brother's behavior poisonous. "The man openly eats meat and drinks," he gasps. Even in the U.S., kung fu aficionados?many of whom themselves know Shaolin only from the movies?believe Yan Ming is too much the joker. Martial arts websites abound with references to the "fake monk." But Yan Ming isn't fazed. "To be a monk you have to know how to be yourself...