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...American love story between East High's basketball star, Troy, and math ace Gabriella has proven a triumph not just for Disney - which has reaped around $680 million in retail sales from the franchise to date - but for cultural globalization. In Latin America, HSM concerts play 50,000-seat stadiums. Swedes and Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and Poles have been among the millions to take in HSM: The Ice Tour, which has three worldwide touring companies. The stage show has played in dozens of cities worldwide, including Beirut, where it premiered during violent clashes. On HSM web forums, fans from Madagascar...
...Such success is testimony to Disney's deft globalization policy. The company left the tunes and story intact worldwide but added local flavor by region. Disney's basic marketing formula for the film's release abroad: find a local star to serve as a bridge between the Disney content and the local market. In Poland, fans watch HSM videos that splice together scenes from the original movie dubbed by fresh-faced Polish pop stars. On Israel's Disney Channel, a Gabriella lookalike sings soulfully in Hebrew. In India, the entire sound track has been re-recorded in Hindi, with Indian...
...four tournaments meets the expectations Harvard set for itself; nonetheless, this fall season deserves a lot of merit. The team’s first victory came at the Dartmouth Invitational, as the Crimson came in first with scores of 314 and 302. Freshman standout Christine Cho was the star that weekend, tying for the individual championship by shooting a four-over 148 on the two rounds. Harvard won the team title by nine, tallying a 616 compared with the Big Green’s 625 in the 17-team competition. The following weekend at the Princeton Invitational, the squad finished...
...Staph, of course, is far from just an NFL problem. Two college teams, the '05 Florida Gators and the '03 USC Trojans, had multiple cases. And football is by no means the only sports victim. The infection kept Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Alex Rios out of the 2006 All-Star Game. A few days later another Toronto player caught it, and the clubhouse was disinfected. NBA players Paul Pierce, Grant Hill and Drew Gooden have had it. Staph killed a high school wrestler in California this summer, and last spring 15 students at a Pennsylvania high school were either treated...
Although Honolulu is the 14th largest city in America, the chain of islands in the most isolated, populated spot on the planet makes Hawaii a small-town kind of place to live. The place reacts with a kind of star-struck energy whenever an islander makes it big. Friends and families, for example, organized call-in centers to flood votes for Hawaii-born contestants on "American Idol." This year's Little League World Series champions from the Oahu community of Waipio were given a parade by the city that ran straight through Waikiki. But Obama's candidacy...