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...folks at Disney were also mum about the potential negative effects of aggressive expansion into foreign markets. “It took us a while to figure out that Euro Disney wasn’t doing so well in France because people drink wine in that country, and we didn’t allow any alcohol in the park,” said Mia Rondinella, a Disney representative...
...STAND FOR THE THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN DOING ALL MY LIFE - WORKING HARD TRYING TO CLIMB THAT LADDER OF OPPORTUNITY." "Economic aspiration is good and social mobility is even better." A place called Green Valley. "When I was young, my Mum used to tell me there were two types of people in our street - the slackers and the hard workers. We had our troubles at home, sure, but we were hard workers...
...stories like that broke the world's collective heart, so did the scraps of paper pinned up along the broken coastlines. There were photographs of the dead in India. Thailand had messages like "Try and contact us, Mum and Dad. Love, Louis and Theo" and a leaflet offering $10,000 for any information about a Swedish family--a mother, father and four children. As the full horror of the death toll in Aceh became apparent at the end of the week, it was clear that in countries other than Indonesia, the count could still rise. Five days after the tsunami...
...Peter Sellers (Dec. 5, 9 p.m. E.T.) and its star, Geoffrey Rush (Shine), that this TV biopic sometimes makes you want to know. We meet Sellers as a young radio comic supported by a loyal wife (Emily Watson) and driven to want more by his lovingly pushy stage mum (Miriam Margolyes). After starmaking film work with directors Blake Edwards (John Lithgow) and Stanley Kubrick (Stanley Tucci), he sheds wife No. 1 and lands bombshell bride Britt Ekland (Charlize Theron...
...than most cancer patients, adolescents dwell in the "Why me?" phase and resist treatment that robs them of looks and vitality. Supple's mother Jenny says he threatened "all the time" to stop taking his medicine and could go for days without speaking. During his numerous hospital stays, his Mum or Dad was always with him, but nurses and psychologists also helped - a coordinated support staff typical of pediatric hospitals. Andrew Young, chief executive officer of CanTeen, a support organization for young people with cancer, echoes the calls of pediatric oncologists for centers or hospital wings dedicated to adolescent patients...