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...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 producer, handpicked the boys from an audition of 200 (minimum qualifications: good looks and a height of 1.8 m) and dubbed them F4, short for the "Flower Four...
...second act is the story of Charity and Oscar, and is more consistent that the first act. The pace of the show picks up, and only lags when Charity and the dancers are left in the empty Fan-Dango Ballroom. The scene is set before the Ballroom is open, but the three dancers get lost in the vast amount of empty space...
...ground, but the pig tasted delicious nonetheless. Soon after my arrival there was the inevitable rush to the serving table, replete with the typical luau spread: somen salad, lomi lomi salmon, sushi, kalua pig and cabbage, teriyaki beef, chicken long rice, dimsum, rice, haupia, coconut cake, and chi chi dango. Kama'aina (island locals) were disappointed to find that pudding-like poi was not shipped in, but otherwise the food was a success. People not familiar with the delicacies of Hawaii were encouraged to "just try everything." Even the police officers who were hired to oversee the event were seen...
...paper, according to Woodall's October statement, borrowed phrases from an article in Economics and Politics by University of California-San Diego Professor John McMillan. McMillan's article was titled, "Dango: Japan's Price-Fixing Conspiracies...
...denies taking part in any dango for the Air Force projects. But the apparent cost to the U.S. taxpayer was dramatically illustrated after an American firm first began competing for such contracts in mid-1988. Since then, NEC has won renewed contracts for work at six military bases -- but the company's bids for the work have fallen 40% to 60%. "This had been going on for about 20 years," says Williams. "I don't think any big firm has ever defrauded us like that before...