A pair of Olympic champion Liu Xiang's running spikes fetched 200,000 yuan ($25,770), for the children of migrant workers in Beijing, at a charity auction at the weekend, Xinhua news agency reported.
Dear Annie: A year ago, I moved with my wife and four small children to a community of some 700 residents. Recently, I learned that a local boy has a shoe fetish. He stole a girls shoes from her house and was caught gratifying himself over them. I feel sorry for the boy.
It was 17 below zero Sunday and a 18 year-old ran outside during the halftime of the Super Bowl without his socks or shoes and was treated for second-degree frostbite.
Time was, not so long ago, when it was all about doing whatever you could do for the good of the team. Coaches spent hours, days, weeks and more instilling a common thought into the collective heads of their players: Its about the name on the front of the jersey, not the name on the back.
Volume is now the key to autumn/winter 2007 and although the American shows have picked up on a trend already seen at the spring collections in Paris, there is a big change from pencil thin to something softer and more nuanced.
Two weeks ago, I unfairly profiled the Chicago speculator community. "Profiling", in the sense of accusing or convicting a suspect based on race or general appearances, is wrong, even in the case of such a rich and privileged group as the "locals", or speculators in the commodities pits.
Pull out your glad rags and shine your shoes for the Indian Derby. More than 25,000 people are expected to reach the Mahalaxmi race course for the citys most important sports-cumsocial event with the intent of being there and hopefully to watch a few thoroughbred champions too.