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1. Mayor Bloomberg recognizes NYC Ladders for Leaders
(U.S./Nation)

... Murro struck up a conversation with Jing Ma, a college student in Buffalo whose marketing aspirations have been cemented by the internship opportunity. The program also includes workshops, free Kaplan ...

2. Beijing Travel
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3. Hollywood coming on strong in China
(World/International)

BY SAM BEATTIE VOA NEWS BEIJING — As China's middle class grows, the demand for entertainment is being met with a boom in cinema construction. In a country where 300 million people are said to be able ...

4. Harvey Schiller: George Steinbrenner’s type of vision may never been seen again in ownership
(Sports/Professional)

... at being successful. The Commission set the standards for fund raising and new corporate involvement, which led to success the American Olympics now have had across the board in recent games like Beijing ...

5. China’s strict gun control laws not enough to stop violence
(World/International)

BY MITCH MOXLEY IPS NEWS AGENCY BEIJING — China and guns have a long history. The country invented gun power and developed one of the world's first guns, known as the "fire spear." Rifles played ...

6. China’s economy showing signs of softening
(Money/Economy)

BY PETER SIMPSON VOA NEWS BEIJING — The World Bank says China's economy has continued to grow robustly so far this year but is showing signs of softening. The quarterly report comes on the same day ...

7. Women struggle with gay husbands in China
(World/International)

BY KIT GILLET IPS NEWS AGENCY BEIJING — Wang Yibing had been married three years before she found out her husband was gay. He had known all along, yet, like many homosexual men in China, had chosen ...

8. Nets Basketball: First Newark, then Brooklyn ... and then the world
(Sports/Professional)

... Tunnel to the new Brooklyn arena. So how do you make the Nets not only Moscow's team but Beijing's team? "That's only the first step," said Pavlova, who is the President of Prokhorov's Onexim Sports ...

9. New Jersey’s Carl Lewis using Olympic fame to fight hunger
(Sports/Professional)

... "There are very few people in this world that are blessed with both talent and charisma. And Carl has both in incredible doses." Logan met Lewis shortly before the 2008 Beijing Olympics. At the Games, ...

10. World Cup 2010: Tony Meola provides insight on the buzz it will create and the state of N.J. soccer
(Sports/Professional)

... The same questions were asked going into Beijing for the Olympics ... could a global sports event actually have a positive socio-economic effect on the country after the halo effect wears off, and will ...

11. Will the World Series of Boxing stem diminishing interest in the sport?
(Sports/Professional)

... in Europe, Istanbul, Turkey: Milan, Italy; Moscow, Russia and Paris, France. There will be an Asian quartet, Astana, Kazakhstan, Baku, Azerbaijan, Beijing, China and Delhi, India. Boxing, a sport that ...

12. Does Japan still need U.S. security blanket?
(World/International)

... to Beijing on Tuesday purportedly for talks on nuclear disarmament and Chinese aid. It is little wonder then that experts are now calling for a "common-sense" approach to the future of Japan-U.S. alliance, ...

13. U.S. ties with Japan facing serious test over airbase
(World/International)

... navy's mission, according to some observers, brings Beijing closer to a confrontation with the U.S. as China, the region's economic powerhouse, begins to take a wider view of its economic and security ...

14. Is China’s one-child policy coming to an end?
(World/International)

BY ANTOANETA BECKER IPS NEWS AGENCY BEIJING — Adept at navigating through politically sensitive anniversaries, the Chinese government has one more socially volatile date marked in its calendar: this ...

15. China drops opposition to sanctions on Iran
(World/International)

... and other member nations in coming weeks. The agreement came as Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili travels to China Thursday to discuss Tehran's nuclear activities with officials in Beijing. ...

16. N.J. basketball legend Anne Donovan comes home to coach at Seton Hall
(Sports/Professional)

... Women's Senior National Team to gold in Beijing and as a result was chosen with Mike Krzyzewski as co-recipient of the 2008 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year award. Donovan also helped the U.S. ...

17. China stands firm against currency pressure
(World/International)

BY KIT GILLET IPS NEWS AGENCY BEIJING — China may be under international pressure, especially from the United States, over the valuation of its currency, but is unlikely to back down in the short term ...

18. Google gives China something to think about as tensions grow
(World/International)

... tacitly approved of or actively assisted by Chinese government-funded research institutions — which led Google to cease its cooperation with Beijing. Many had hoped that Google would reach an agreement ...

19. Forget Google, China aggressively pushes forward with state sponsored media
(World/International)

BY MITCH MOXLEY IPS NEWS AGENCY BEIJING — Expanded overseas bureaus, more Chinese and foreign-language editorial products reaching global audiences and now, a reformatting of the country's most widely ...

20. Julie Roginsky: Cheney’s effort to demonize lawyers disrespects our Constitution
(Opinion/Commentary)

... communication with either the congressional leadership or the executive branch. But no one, despite those disagreements, accused anyone else of a lack of patriotism or employed the jingoistic language ...