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...comment that soon led to intercourse, so I felt no reason for it to be seen as confusing, hateful and destructive. The record label [told me], Take it off the album. Rather than do so, I decided to produce it on the inside of the sleeve with a different name, so it'll be sold in Wal-Mart or wherever stores sell guns but are afraid to deal with lyrics. So I put "Pretty as a ($)" because all of their motivations are based on money. (Watch TIME's video from the 2009 SXSW Music Festival...
Huang Jianhua's given name means "building China," but the sports promoter, who goes by the English name Ken, may be more interested in building U.S. basketball. According to basketball sources, the Chinese-born Huang is brokering a deal between the Cleveland Cavaliers and a Hong Kong real estate and telecommunications conglomerate called New World Development to buy up to a 15% minority stake in the National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise and its sports arena. The Cavs, who are currently battling the Orlando Magic for the Eastern Conference title, boast this season's most valuable player, LeBron James...
...storied surname sits lightly on Youssef Boutros-Ghali's shoulders. "People recognize it, and my family is used to that because we've been in politics and government since the 1800s," says Egypt's urbane Finance Minister. The family name acquired international renown in 1991, when his uncle was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations. Then came ignominy. Denounced as divisive and incompetent by the U.S. and other Western nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the first Secretary-General not to be re-elected for a second term...
...fought his way through the lines at the opening sale of a new waterfront condominium development. Such launches always attracted crowds of investors eager to get the first shot at a new offering, but the buzz that day was especially intense, remembers Mohamed. (He asks that his real name not be used because his company is in financial difficulty and he may leave the country.) Helicopters circled the event "as if David Beckham had arrived at the airport," he says. Inside, Mohamed put a down payment on an apartment, walked out the door, and sold the unit to a Russian...
About a year ago, the makers of Red Bull, the famous caffeine-loaded energy drink, decided to come out with a soda, unsurprisingly named Red Bull Cola. The shared name implied the same big kick. But could the cola's boost - supposedly "100% natural" - come from something else? Officials in Germany worry that they've found the answer - cocaine. And now they have prohibited the soda's sale in six states across the country and may recommend a nation-wide...