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...first difficulty lies simply in locating an opportunity abroad. Linda Zou ’06 was told: you’re a proactive Harvard student, get out there and find yourself an internship. She learned that her options, she said, “consisted of doing Google searches, paying an organization to find an internship for me or looking through some books in the Office of Career Services (OCS) Reading Room, which I did without result.” Even armed with the most impressive of resumés, students like Zou face many difficulties when contacting employers overseas, from...
...arranged for the state-run television network to broadcast the finals nationally. The Chinese responded: sales through the 1990s picked up 60% a year. "Our goal was to hook kids into Nike early and hold them for life," says Rhoads, who now runs a Shanghai-based sports marketing company, Zou Marketing. Nike also hitched its wagon to the NBA (which had begun televising games in China), bringing players like Michael Jordan for visits. Slowly but surely, in-the-know Chinese came to call sneakers...
...Chinese athletes who were elevated to hero status got there by virtue of the state, which selected solely the most politically pure candidates. "If you look at China's sports history, the athlete's only purpose was to glorify the Communist Party," says Tor Petersen, co-founder of Zou Marketing, a sports-marketing firm in Shanghai. "But in the past couple of years, athletes have been allowed to express themselves as individuals, even promoting brands instead of the state." Indeed, more often than not, the mainland's most popular athletes are now picked by the free market. Liu Xuan...
...Since independent unions are banned, they took their protest directly to the government, spending a night outside city hall. The next day their employer, a Hong Kong firm called Max Infosystems, raised salaries but cut meal subsidies by the same amount, according to one of the strike's organizers, Zou Quansheng...
...Officers arrested Zou Zengyuan, 29, of East Boston, on an outstanding warrant at Mahoney’s Garden Center on Memorial Drive...