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Byline: Dan LeBatard
BEIJING _ So much happened before Michael Jordan reached the top of the mountain.
Take his first moments in China, for example. All those smiling faces at the airport, so many, waiting for Jordan with the kind of hyperventilation articulated by the front-page headline in The Beijing Daily Messenger: ``How We Have Been Longing For Your Flying Glamour!'' Jordan hadn't expected rock-star commotion, not on the other side of the world, not five years removed from championships, not in a bowing land known for polite rigidity. And how in the name of Chairman Mao did all these breathless people know when and where he would land, anyway?
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