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...season's surprise on the best-seller lists is a how-to for academic success. Ron Clark, 31, author of The Essential 55 (Hyperion), is an earnest Atlanta-based grade-school teacher who has come up with 55 rules for "discovering the successful student in every child." What magical formula has the educator discovered? His core philosophy is that if you teach basic behavioral lessons first, they will lay the foundation for academic education later. Among his tips for kids: make eye contact when in conversation, meet your deadlines, learn the names of all the teachers in your school...
...somewhat. The rallies have made the democrats more popular?and may also have modified their reputation in Beijing. None of the protests have been even remotely anti-China. That's walking?or marching?proof that Hong Kongers accept?perhaps even embrace?Chinese rule and the "one country, two systems" formula but see some ways their system could or should be improved. "People used to ask us, what is democracy for?" notes legislator Emily Lau. "We would say, it's for our freedoms. They would respond, we have all the freedoms we need. Now they realize that they...
...Given the film's modest (by Hollywood standards) $8.5 million budget, Kameyama's lighthearted sequel would seem woefully overmatched by the summertime competition. But he's betting on an underdog formula that has worked magic before. Based on an 11-part TV series, the original Bayside Shakedown?which cost just $3 million to produce?premiered in 1998 and went on to become the most popular live-action Japanese movie in more than a decade. It ran in theaters for six months (most movies in Japan last about a month) and posted a box-office take of $84 million, becoming...
...Japanese film studios have fallen by the wayside. In their place, the TV networks have become the nation's major film-production companies, churning out fast and cheap entertainment with actors, plot devices and production values borrowed from the small screen. Much of this is niche oriented, but the formula has also produced some widely popular hits, such as the schoolroom drama GTO and the offbeat hospital comedy Leave it to the Nurses...
...ARRESTED. HIROTOSHI HONDA, 61, eldest son of late Honda Motor Co. founder Soichiro Honda; for allegedly evading $8.5 million in corporate taxes while head of Formula One engine maker Mugen; in Saitama, Japan...