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...Three-time Stanley Cup champion Brendan Shanahan, the NHL's active goal-scoring leader, argued that while NHL players are often accused of being boring and Canadian, many are not even Canadian. I asked Shanahan for an exciting fact about himself, and he thought for a moment. "I have a photographic memory in any sort of movie game," he said. I pressed him for something else: "My beard grows every three hours and looks completely gray. I make Brett Favre look young." Seriously, the NHL has got to abandon this beard campaign...
...Born the second of four children in 1956 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Charles Joseph "Charlie" Crist grew up in St. Petersburg, FL, the grandson of immigrants. His last name - often mispronounced "Christ" - is the Anglicized version of the Greek name "Christodoulou...
...Vice President. Persistent rumors that he is gay - reiterated in the recent documentary "Outrage," which purports to decloset several prominent Republicans - may have sunk his chances. Crist insists he is straight, but his December 12, 2008 marriage to Carole Rome was widely viewed as politically expedient. He is often mentioned as a possible Presidential contender...
...minute drive from heaven, you can find hell. Black House is so named because the 40 huts that make up the work are mostly painted in artist Thawan Duchanee's favorite hue, which is often associated with the diabolical. The huts are dedicated to promoting contemporary art, whether it comes in the form of an immaculately composed rock garden, an elaborately carved door evocative of a temple, or vast sculptures. The bushy-bearded artist says he wants to breathe life into the otherwise inanimate structures. "The Black House evokes the past Thai civilization in a contemporary manner," says Thawan...
...power structure described in the book is chaotic and often bumbling. In Zhao's narrative, Deng is a conflicted figure who urges Zhao to push hard for economic change but demands a crackdown on anything that seems to challenge the party's authority. Deng is at times portrayed not as an emperor but as a puppet subject to manipulation by Zhao or his rivals, depending on who presents his case to the old man first...