| Limited churches open doors to homeless
And when there aren't enough churches opening up, the homeless have to sleep in the elements. "Put a piece of cardboard on the ground because it keeps the cold out and wrap up in a sleeping bag or a blanket and hope you are still breathing in the morning" Hamilton said. .
Asian 'godfathers' maintain mystique
THE rise of China and the revival of most other Asian economies have consigned the financial crisis of a decade ago to a distant haze. We're back, for the most part, in admiration mode. Clever blighters, these Asians, how on earth do they do it? One ubiquitous answer is that their good economic fortunes are driven substantially by brilliant entrepreneurs - almost all of them apparently ethnic Chinese - who have seized their chance with verve, being let off the regulatory leash to create diverse business empires out of virtually nothing. Enter Joe Studwell, iconoclastic British author of The China Dream and founder of the excellent Hong Kong-based China Economic Quarterly. His recently published Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and southeast Asia is one of the best business books of 2007, and one of the best on Asia.
Confidence kicks up, shoe collection grows
On his floor are a patent leather stars-and-stripes pair from Fourth of July 2006 and an understated but expensive waterproof pair. Two plain white shoes rest atop his headboard. There's also the popular see-through pair, which "went on demand and sold out real fast." "He has a lot of stuff," teammate Theo Robertson says. "He wears a lot of loud outfits. He's really a sneakerhead." Christopher debuted a pair of navy blue and white Jordans against Arizona State on Dec. 17. "A lot of them are from different eras," he says. "I wear the all-white ones a few times and give them away to someone at church." He makes sure to mix up the ones he wears in order to keep all of his pairs looking like new. His roommates are two teammates, fellow sophomores Nican Robinson and Jamal Boykin - and Christopher lucked out to get the largest of the three rooms.
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