Lin is an aggressive all-court player, with a powerful topspin forehand honed by his childhood coach: his father Li, a professor of engineering at the University at Buffalo.
"I will perform my duty in accordance with fellow villagers' wishes and law, " Mr. Lin said in an interview with the state-run Xinhua news agency.
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"Having performed an exotic dance and an opening song, 26-year-old stewardess Lin Lin won resounding ovation from the few passengers in the audience, " Xinhua recounts.
While his story might not be as screenplay-ready as an overlooked Harvard point guard turned Knick hero, Winston Lin has snuck up on his sport, too.
When Albert Lin, an American energy entrepreneur on the board of Future Fuels, a Texas-based power-plant developer, set out to find a gasifier for a pioneering new plant that is designed to spew less greenhouse gas, he figured that he would buy one from G.
Lin's awakening to dance came with the 1948 classic The Red Shoes - the tale of an aspiring dancer's struggle to join a famous ballet company.
In May 2010, an unsung numbers hobbyist named Ed Weiland wrote a long-term forecast of Jeremy Lin for the basketball website Hoops Analyst.
China is expected to place an even greater emphasis on fighting poverty in 2011, said Lin Jialai, executive vice-president of the China Association of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
Lin is an underdog in the crisp Hollywood sense: the underappreciated athlete who was shunned by big-time college teams, undrafted by the pros, dumped after tours with Golden State and Houston, and briefly demoted by the Knicks.
Then Lin emerged as an NBA star in 2011, when the Crimson also won a share of their first-ever Ivy League men's basketball title.
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