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...MING by Brook Larmer...
...insists that although his team is fighting for play-off position in the NBA's talent-rich Western Conference, he's not an anxious guy. "Being a coach is more frustrating than stressful, because so much is beyond your control." He may draw up the brilliant play, but Yao Ming has to make the chip shot. Knowing that someday they are likely to be fired, Van Gundy and others take comfort in the big paychecks. Before he got to the top, he scraped along as a lowly assistant at the college and pro levels. Real stress, he says, is "living...
...beautiful, and I thought I was ordinary." She is naggingly self-critical. When one of her movies is mentioned, she asks: "Don't you think I looked like I was trying a little hard?" She is ranked third on Forbes' China Celebrity List (after basketball superstar Yao Ming and actress Zhang Ziyi), yet such accolades have done nothing to burnish her image of herself. "Sometimes it's very difficult to get a sense of myself. I need other people to be my mirror...
...APPOINTED. DEL HARRIS, 66, former Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets coach; to lead China's national basketball team, the first foreigner chosen to do so; in Beijing. The Chinese squad, led by the U.S.-based National Basketball Association's All-Star Yao Ming, is expected to be a medal contender at this summer's Athens Olympics...
...ARRIVED. ZHANG MING, 47, police officer sent as China's lone personnel contribution to the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan; in Kabul. Zhang worked as a narcotics officer on the island province of Hainan...