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...With popularity on par with the Batman character in the U.S., Ultraman is a silver-and-red-clad superhero with buglike eyes and a reputation for countless victories. Actors and comedians - not former Prime Ministers - usually perform the voices for characters in the series' live-action or animation films. And at first, Koizumi was no exception; he originally turned down the role, in which the Ultraman King delivers a rousing speech to the film's main characters. But Koizumi's 28-year-old son Shinjiro, a first-time Diet legislature member, persuaded his father to do it. Shinjiro, a longtime...
That sudden turnaround can largely be attributed to the drastic improvement the Quakers’ Colin St. Maxens experienced. After shooting an 82 in the first round on the par-71 course, St. Maxens answered with...
...flying can be a miserable way to travel. Most of us have suffered airport gridlock, interminable flights in cramped seats or vanishing luggage - and those of us who haven't have surely endured the horror stories secondhand. If you're grumbling now, consider that airline performance has been above par - if far from stellar - since travel dropped sharply amid the economic downturn and that both ticket prices and congestion are expected to spike when the staycations end and customers return to the skies. A new report from the Brookings Institution puts air-travel trends into perspective. The U.S. air-traffic...
Well, there's also this: Palin had help. Editorial sidekicks are par for the course in political memoirs, though ghostwriters say many pols are heavily involved in the writing process. Palin's assist came from Lynn Vincent, a writer for the Christian news magazine WORLD who has co-authored several other books. (Read about Sarah Palin's book tour...
Rounding out Harvard’s scorers, captain Danny Mayer had a tough first round, shooting a 77, but improved in each subsequent round going +3 in Round 2 before shooting par in the final round to finish...