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...with half a dozen Elvis Presley songs for Mom and Dad, and just enough sass--Stitch sticks his tongue into his nose and eats his snot--to keep the tweeners giggling. Lilo (voiced by Daveigh Chase) gives the usual lonely-but-superior Disney heroine a twist: she is a brat who has anger issues. And far from trying to save China or morph from mermaid to human, this Hawaiian handful has no goal loftier than the status quo--to keep living with her frazzled sister Nani (Tia Carrere...
...fans remember the three Wimbledon singles trophies he lifted, his four U.S. Open titles, the 10 Grand Slam doubles crowns. But many haven't forgotten Wimbledon 1981, when he called umpire Ted James "the pits of the world," almost got thrown out of the tournament and was labeled "Super Brat" by the British press. McEnroe the post-therapy modern man candidly assesses, both in interview and autobiography, his public displays as well as his private dysfunction. He says that putting the book together helped him to learn from some of his difficult past, such as the breakup of his rocky...
...Hughes' explanation rang true for reporters who had watched her try to tutor her son Robert, now 15, in algebra on the campaign plane or had tracked her down by cell phone in the bleachers at one of his baseball games. It was clear that the former Army brat was never comfortable with having hauled her family to Washington. When Condoleezza Rice woke her at 5:15 one morning a year ago to tell her the spy-plane crisis with the Chinese had been resolved, Robert yelled from his bedroom in the rented Washington house, "I hate working...
...Hughes' explanation rang true for reporters who had watched her try to tutor her son Robert, now 15, in algebra on the campaign plane or had tracked her down by cell phone in the bleachers at one of his baseball games. It was clear that the former Army brat was never comfortable with having hauled her family to Washington. When Condoleezza Rice woke her at 5:15 one morning a year ago to tell her the spy-plane crisis with the Chinese had been resolved, Robert yelled from his bedroom in the rented Washington house, "I hate working...
...boys leapt into the limelight last April with the launch of the show Meteor Garden on Taiwan's Chinese Television System. Women of all ages gushed over the romantic tale of a poor girl hooking up with a member of a rich brat-bully pack at an ?lite Taipei high school. (Mainland Chinese authorities were less enamored, saying it misled young viewers; Beijing recently banned the show after a few episodes aired on some local television stations.) The TV plot was adapted from a Japanese manga comic called Hana Yori Dango (Men Are Better Than Flowers). Chai, a variety-show...