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...present - are politically motivated. He promises a fresh start, and says he has lured enough defectors from the National Front to bring about the current government's collapse. Nevertheless, Anwar isn't assured a place as Malaysia's next Prime Minister. For one, he still faces trial on the latest sodomy charge, which he denies. And Anwar's political alliance is an unwieldy amalgamation of Chinese patriots, conservative Muslims and reform-minded technocrats. But if Anwar can keep such a disparate miscellany of parties unified, then he might just be the man to rule a new Malaysia...
...While computers are sometimes used - digital paint was employed in Princess Mononoke, for example - the essence if not the entirety of a Studio Ghibli film still consists of Miyazaki personally putting pen to paper. His latest fairytale, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, which grossed over $91 million in the first month of its Japan release, was done entirely by hand. The power of this as a means of differentiating Studio Ghibli's work from other animation houses cannot be overstated. Characters and story lines, too, are seemingly inimitable. "The Ghibli working style is possible because of Miyazaki," says...
...messing up my game. A while ago, Apple loaned me an iPhone 3G, and after extensive "testing," I finally convinced my wife I needed to buy one. "What about your BlackBerry?" she asked. "I can use the iPhone for work now, instead of my BlackBerry," I said. Grudgingly (the latest iPhone costs $199 or $299, plus I'd have to pay Verizon a $120 early-termination fee), she gave me the green light. Then tragedy struck: my 10-year-old morbidly obese Labrador retriever Otto tore...
After I ran up to my room, threw myself on the bed and kicked and thrashed for a while, I consoled myself by enumerating the various pros and cons I had experienced while using the phone, which runs on AT&T's superfast 3G data network. Because the latest iPhone, which went on sale in July, supports Microsoft Exchange--the industry standard for synching corporate e-mail, calendars, contacts and so on--Apple is pitching its phone to business users as well as to consumers. So, aside from cost--AT&T's rates for the iPhone are way steeper...
Logically, it made Cadbury and Hershey potential merger partners. Indeed, Cadbury has had on-and-off merger talks with Hershey for more than a decade and even teamed with Nestlé in a failed $10.5 billion bid for Hershey in 2002. The latest talks occurred in 2007 between Stitzer and then Hershey CEO Richard Lenny. But Lenny was ousted from Hershey in an ugly shake-up later in the year. Hershey continues to stumble--most recently when it raised prices 10% in response to rising costs, a move that hit its stock hard...