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That's partly because they don't know about it. Unlike its fellow nominees Up, The Princess and the Frog, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline, The Secret of Kells has no star voice actors or big-studio promotional machine behind it. Its relative obscurity is typical of the lopsided world of children's films. There's a huge market for the sort of loud and cheerful entertainment that features singing chipmunks, love-struck vampires or wisecracking species from the Pleistocene era; family films regularly top the annual box-office blockbuster lists. But there's almost nowhere for quieter, less merchandise...
...gauge whether their leadership class can accept the outcome of the vote and move forward peacefully. That will not be easy. "It's hard teaching people who have come out of a dictatorship to negotiate with each other," says the U.S. NGO worker. "In a dictatorship, all they know is win-lose. It takes time for them to learn that in a democracy you can have win-win compromises...
...when news spread that Barry had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, more than 50 young writers staged a banquet to honor him. They came from Montana and New York and Florida to be with the author of Airships and High Lonesome for one evening and let him know how much he meant to them...
...family. On that same day, she told her parents she wanted to be a whale trainer when she grew up. Dawn held tight to that dream. But she didn't just become a whale trainer. She became one of the most dedicated and talented trainers SeaWorld would ever know...
...party. It won't be easy to herd Congress's collection of tense, defensive, anxious Democrats, distracted by tough re-election bids and the grim disapproval of an angry electorate. But as you watch the taut health care endgame, just remember that there is a reason we don't know much about how Barack Obama handles losing: it almost never happens...