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...MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, the Hollywood film; from distribution in China; in Beijing. Chinese officials reversed an earlier approval by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to allow the film in the country, reportedly over concerns that the portrayal of Japanese geishas by ethnic Chinese actresses might spark anger in China, where anti-Japanese sentiment remains strong...
...Though that deal ultimately failed, Horie's ability to turn his tiny company into a behemoth with a market value as high as $8 billion helped spark a broader M&A boom. Rivals in Japan's go-go Internet industry learned that they too could grow by gobbling up corporate minnows. "A lot of people have followed the Livedoor model," says Tom Sato, founder of Tokyo IPO, a financial-information website. Softbank has executed 140 mergers or acquisitions; Rakuten, Japan's leading online-shopping site, has executed 55 of them; Yahoo! Japan has done 24. Although Japan still accounts...
...Marxism in his defense of a Christian vision of good works. But the message is ultimately a clear and simple call for Christian love and charity. Popes typically use their first encyclicals, the most authoritative form of Church writing, to set the tone for their reign rather than to spark debate or overhaul Catholic teachings. With this work, released Wednesday by top Vatican officials, the pontiff may have once and for all moved beyond the caricature painted by his opponents of a cold and rigid doctrinal enforcer from his quarter-century as John Paul II's chief of orthodoxy...
...result of a troubled childhood, and they often draw on their painful background to intensify their performances. But, says Marion Solomon, a therapist based in Los Angeles, they run the risk of getting trapped in their pain, fearing that if they escape their past they will lose their creative spark. Solomon's clients often say their feelings are too painful to reveal. "I say, 'Feel those feelings, experience them with me, be aware of where you feel them in your body, and we can dive into them and then come out and find we haven't been destroyed by them...
...taking the class, section sizes this fall hover around 12. More students than expected signed up for the class after shopping period, and few students dropped the course.“It is tempting to speculate that the fairly steady enrollment in the course may reflect its ability to spark the curiosity and maintain the interest of our students,” Liu writes.And overall, Life Sciences 1a staff members have been pleased with the first run of the course.“I think that I’d like to say that the course has gone well...