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...Mart?" asks Charlyn Jarrells Porter, the company's head of personnel. There are no such labor issues in China. It turns out that the Chinese make the best capitalists, and the most fervent believers in the Wal-Mart culture. At the store in Shenzhen, local managers hold Ping-Pong tourneys, stage fashion shows and have clerks hawk products like paper towels in front of a large display. And that's just on Tuesday. The store even has its own fight song, Marching Into a New Era. ("My heart is filled with pride ... I long to tell you how deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The World's Biggest Store | 1/12/2003 | See Source »

Tina: Hang gliding, synchronized swimming, ping-pong. I think he enjoys foreign films, it just seems he has fine taste—he must like very good food, something exotic...

Author: By Rina Fujii, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Return of the Fashion Dialogue | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...physical training. Anointed a three-star general and head of the Mangla army base, located at the most sensitive stretch of the Line of Control dividing Kashmir, he was famous for speeding through work by 2 p.m. so he could spend the rest of the day sailing and playing Ping-Pong, tennis or squash with the men. "There wasn't a game he couldn't learn," says Major General Rashid Qureshi, who served with Musharraf and is his official spokesman. "We found him everywhere the troops were." It's a refrain you hear often in military circles: Musharraf was excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should This Man Be Smiling? | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...cyber --space travel --United Nations --sing-along --Canada --Ping-Pong --crafts fair --mining the seas

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commencement-Speaker Order Form | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...just watching the action, but he soon realized “that guy is amazing!” Kyerematen says he likes to surprise unknowing observers at the MAC who see only “an older guy with a belly” and underestimate his sprightliness. He thanks ping-pong for keeping him young and wishes to play as long as he can. And he’ll keep looking for a challenge. “I know there’s better [players],” he says. “I just have to find them...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: He's a Ping-Pong Wizard | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

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