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...even these irreverent squiggles, however, can diminish the real testament of the posters: the enduring stardom; the genre jumping; the directing, producing and acting credits that have built his brilliant career during his two decades in the movie business. Yet even by his mammoth standards for success, this has been Gibson's year of living large. While last summer's Revolutionary War epic "The Patriot" wasn't the blockbuster Sony hoped for, it grossed more than $100 million in the U.S., thanks to Gibson's drawing power. He also provided his marquee value and inimitably cocky voice to the role...
Vicente Fox Posada's biggest enemy might, perhaps, be his people's high expectations of a new political order in Mexico. But the mammoth odds against his efforts to reform his country's torpid economic and political system give him a Quixotic sheen, which has everyone from the poorest peasants in Oaxaca to the most worldly wise diplomats in Mexico City ready to extend him a generous line of political credit...
...wily if obtuse politician of the old school, adept at surviving by switching parties and baiting voters. In 1988, riding a tide of states' rights fervor, he appointed a friend, Martha Nachman, as welfare commissioner, with a mandate to ignore federal court-imposed guidelines on foster care. The mammoth state agency quickly deteriorated...
...greeted by dozens of singing and dancing children who are among the 8 million North Koreans being fed with the held of the World Food Program. More than one third of the country's population has been threatened with starvation due to the country's extreme poverty, mammoth external debt and collapsed communist economy, exacerbated by recent droughts and typhoons. The U.S has provided 67 percent of the total food aid to the country...
Even with the outdated policies deleted, Simmons says the final project is "mammoth," totaling more than 1,000 pages. She says every member should read through the document several times before adopting...