Eisenbud may work with other players -- he has a group of young hopefuls as well as Li -- but he says Sharapova will always be his focus.
On the next page, he talked about "3, 000-li March, " about the path of the great leader's love, which he saw everywhere he went in the country.
Lai, now 50, sold his remaining 27% stake in Giordano in 1994 for fear that a derogatory comment he made in print about then-premier Li Peng would hurt the company in China and its proposed listing in Hong Kong (it did).
Nonsense, thought Li--although he sent his own family to Singapore for a spell.
He marched off to see legislator Li Wah-ming, who organized a clandestine investigation into the sewage workers' nocturnal habits.
He had also offered his services to Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's most powerful tycoon.
Then-premier Li Peng was so impressed that he visited the campus in 1991.
And Li's partner in developing Beijing's glitziest commercial complex was Tung Chee-hwa, long Li's friend before he became chief executive of Hong Kong.
It was officially announced this month that he was in fact leaving Nike (he joined the Nike-owned Converse line in 2003) for Li-Ning.
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Prof Andrew Graves, head of the University's School of Management, told Li he could resubmit the 12, 000-word essay, appeal against the mark or accept it and withdraw from the course.
In September, on his fourth visit to the mainland since 1989, he met with top officials including Vice-President Rong Yiren and Prime Minister Li Peng.
He took risks, making markets in unusual securities like the state of California's individual registered warrants, issued during a 2009 budget crisis and he received venture capital from FirstMark Capital, Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, and one of Singapore's state-owned investment funds.
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D'Aloisio started the company when he was 15 and quickly attracted investors, including Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing and Hollywood stars Ashton Kutcher and Stephen Fry.
He carefully cultivated still-influential members of the revolutionary old guard and aligned himself with Li Peng, the powerful premier.
Moon lives on the fringes of gang life, collecting debts for triad member Big Brother Wing, but steering clear of the killing and crime he feels is reserved for dumber folk -- such as his sidekick Sylvester (Wenbers Li Tung-chuen), a retarded and impressionable gentle giant whom Moon protects from himself as much as from the schoolchildren who habitually pick on him.
In 2011, Mr. Li sold out to some Florida-based silent partners, and he now splits his time between Florida and Canada, continuing to develop the Jetlev design while pursuing intellectual-property litigation (there are, in fact, at least two other hydraulically powered flying-machine designs in the world).
"It's mind-boggling to think he's 38 and still running like this, " coach James Li said.
He found his 32-year-old bride, Wendy Deng, there, but he has not made a bean out of the company since he bought it from Richard Li, son of a rich Hong Kong businessman, Li Ka-shing, in 1993.
The cobblestones were silvery with rain, and Li donned a forest-green felt outback hat and pointed us ahead as he started at a brisk walk.
After Li's remarks, he sat facing the stage as company President and Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes brought on Lee Kuan Yew, minister mentor and patriarch of modern Singapore.
That Mr Li apparently did not mention this pact to the private-equity bidders suggests that he knew his planned sale would displease his Chinese partner.
He is often said to be "in the pocket" of big property developers, including tycoon Li Ka-shing.
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