READING, HANGING OUT, EATING, EXERCISING, FILMS, MUSIC, COOKING, PAINTING, LEARNING MANDARIN CHINESE, U.S. STOCK MARKET, WORLD STOCK MARKETS, INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND ECONOMICS, GLOBAL COMMERCE AND TRADE, AND POLITICS (BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC).
Three of my heroes, Gong Li, Kofi Annan, Zhang Jingchu, Jane Zhang, Zhou Xun, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Dr. Ben Carson, Honey Lee (Miss Korea 2007), Mike Krzyzewski, Dr. David Ho, Dr. Mae C. Jemison, Ted Turner, Jessica Alba, Tony Dungy, Alicia Keys, Li Man, Norah Jones, James Carville, Pat Buchanan, Tony Blair, Kobe Bryant, Fareed Zakaria, Colin Powell, Warren Buffett, Vernon Jordan, Lee Iacocca, James A. Baker III, Kerry Washington, Jiang Zemin, Zhang Yimou, Muhammad Yunus, Dalai Lama, Joseph Stiglitz and people who pique my curiosity.
,AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTISTS AND GENRES.
KING OF THE HILL, THE SIMPSONS, ON THE LOT, THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP, GLOBE TREKKER, THE GAME, GREY'S ANATOMY, TENNIS, COLLEGE AND NFL FOOTBALL, AND COLLEGE AND NBA BASKETBALL.
ALMOST ANYTHING NON-FICTION (PARTICULARLY WRITINGS ON BUSINESS AND POLITICS), A GOOD NOVEL FROM TIME TO TIME, AND A LITTLE POETRY.
BILL CLINTON, NELSON MANDELA, MY MOM, AND JESUS THE CHRIST.