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...expanded well beyond South Korea in just four years and is now seen in 80 countries, its characters adorning everything from diapers to dishes. Still, it is the success at home that may be most surprising, since the show is not about learning ABCs--which is what Korean moms, eager to give their kids a leg up in the country's ferociously competitive education system, usually want. Choi's next big goal is getting a piece of the lucrative but highly competitive market in the U.S., where kids still do not know about Pororo and his playmates. If history...
...ingredients of a lightweight thriller than a serious political memoir. Yet Cherie Blair's book has already had a heavy impact on Gordon Brown, her husband's successor as Prime Minister. Struggling to reassert his authority after his Labour Party was savaged in municipal elections this month, and eager to avoid another rout in a byelection on May 22, Brown urgently needs to convince the public and his own party that he has the right qualities to lead Britain...
...heart-healthy pals are involved) is pitched largely to a young crowd that apparently likes to see pretty people - especially upwardly striving ones like Diaz's character - humiliated and abused in ways that are stupefyingly familiar. I'm beginning to think that these kids represent a resentment demographic, less eager to laugh than they are to exercise spite and envy at peers who want to grow up sensibly rather than throw up mindlessly in some sleazebag movie...
...implications of such a policy would lead to drastic increases in litigation and eager lawyers ready to find ways to shut down energy production," says Inhofe, who has held two hearings this year for which he rounded up a retinue of doubtful experts. "These special interest groups believe no oil and gas leases should be allowed until the bear is listed, its critical habitat designated and a recovery plan put in place. That could be a very long time...
...many current students, the objectives of prefrosh weekend were more concrete but similar in spirit, generally ranging from “get them drunk” to “get them laid.” This surprises no one: Harvardians are always eager to establish their partying bona fides, and ever-hopeful that next year’s crop of freshmen will be both hotter and less awkward than those that came before...