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...even in Japan, the President-Elect of the United States is a media darling. Well before this month's election, Obama fever was in full swing in a small town in western Japan called Obama, where residents formed hula teams in homage of the politician's Hawaii years. Ten months ago, Notchi didn't even know who Barack Obama was until his wife mentioned he looked like the up-and-coming politician. "I thought Obama was a pro wrestler or a fighter or something," the comedian recalls, wearing the dark suit - originally purchased for weddings and funerals - that he uses...
...Queens, N.Y., has broken more than 200 records. He notched his first in 1979 by doing more than 27,000 jumping jacks, and has since hop-scotched the globe in search of new marks, tacking on records for rope-skipping (on a pogo stick) at Cambodia's Angkor Wat, hula-hooping at Australia's Ayers Rock, and traveling the entire 12-mile length of Paul Revere's Massachusetts ride in forward rolls. "I'm trying to show others that our human capacity is unlimited if we can truly believe in ourselves," Furman wrote...
...state where elderly Native Hawaiians, or kupuna, still tell horror stories of being beaten for speaking their native language in public, many of the 1978 changes to the state's constitution crystalized the renaissance in Hawaiian culture that included a resurgence in hula dancing and the practice of navigating canoes over thousands of miles of open ocean while relying on only the natural elements of wind, waves and stars - a technique known as "wayfaring...
...press conference at which Putin humbly suggests that the video is not really about him) is the one of the Russian Prime Minister swaying his hips round and round. Clearly, he's loosening them up for maximum potential flippage, yet he looks like he's manipulating an imaginary hula hoop. It's the one moment when his ice cold Russian toughness is nowhere in sight...
...Murphy says. A better question might be to ask why they’re so surprised. The last two senior Crimson starters at quarterback—Neil Rose ’02 and Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05—were starting quarterbacks in the Hula Bowl, a showcase game for college seniors before the NFL draft. Fitzpatrick is still in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals, one of several ex-Crimson stars playing professional football. Hatch’s playing time amounts to a pretty significant endorsement of the talent present at the Ivy level...