Successors to their line of thinking include Warren Buffett (whose Berkshire Hathaway missed my screen because it is not shrinking its share base) and the cagey folks running Leucadia National Corp. (which is losing money at the moment but has an extraordinary recordofbook value growth).
Reportedly, the rounds they had been firing were blanks -- which did not prevent them from gaining the world's biggest gems robbery record in Guinness Bookof Records.
More than 25 Chinese Canadian journalists were due to cover the game, including one who presented Lin with a bookof "Year of the Dragon" stamps from Canada Post and asked him to record a message in Mandarin, which he did.