Word: mel
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...Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, he plays Pete Perkins, a ranch foreman whose Mexican friend Melquiades is killed by a hotheaded border-patrol guard (Barry Pepper). As an act of respect, Pete vows to return Mel's body home; as a moral lesson, he resolves to take the killer with him. At riflepoint...
What's your karaoke song? Do Mel, by Bell Biv DeVoe, because we kill it. We are the karaoke kings. We kill at that, and then we come right back with Y.M.C.A...
...Mel Rapton doesn't know how to pronounce the name of the Chinese company whose automobiles he would like to import and perhaps sell at his Honda dealership in Sacramento, Calif. He doesn't know what styles he'll promote, what he'll charge or how exactly he'll persuade Americans to buy a car made in China?one that isn't a Hot Wheels toy, that...
...such as flat-screen TVs and laptop PCs. Art Spinella, president of CNW Marketing Research, surveyed consumers to see if they would consider buying a Chinese car. About 36% said they would. "That level of consideration is twice what it was for Korean brands 10 years ago," he says. Mel Rapton, the California car dealer, figures that a combo of 100,000-mile warranties and cut-rate pricing will get Chinese cars moving. "It's a pretty big gamble," the 77-year-old admits. "But if I were 50, I wouldn't consider it a gamble...
...Families is asking him to leave the Republican Party. A leading grass-roots group, the California Republican Assembly, is lobbying to rescind the G.O.P.'s preprimary endorsement of Schwarzenegger. Those activists have collected more than 10,000 signatures on an online petition urging The Passion of the Christ director Mel Gibson, a conservative Catholic, to run against Schwarzenegger for Governor. "His reaction to the special election was to raise a white flag in surrender to the liberals," complains Mike Spence, who heads the assembly. "Schwarzenegger's going to have to give conservatives a reason to vote for him. Otherwise...