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| | Charles Wang Newsmaker | CBC Sports Online |
 | | Wang's latest head-scratcher was unveiled earlier this week when during a news conference in Uniondale, N.Y., the self-described risk-taker announced he'd persuaded promising but unproven goalie Rick DiPietro to accept a jaw-dropping 15-year contract extension. |
 | | In pre-revolutionary China, the Wangs enjoyed a life of privilege Wang's father, Kenneth, was a judge in the highest court in the land but in America they struggled to make do, living in a modest home in Queens, N.Y. Wang's father taught at St. John's University while his mother, Mary, was a librarian. |
 | | Wang did so well selling computer software in the U.S. that he, along with older brother Tony, bought Computer Associates and took it public, growing CA into one of the biggest software companies in the world, at times rivalling Microsoft, IBM and Oracle. |
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