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...Internet has been formative in the evolution of Japan's latest literary genre. As early as 2000, keitai shosetsu were appearing on the website Maho i-Rando, which offered MySpace-style homepages, to which readers posted diary entries via their cell phones. But "people wrote in asking for a place where they could be expressive and creative," says Akira Tanii, the site's founder. "We gave them a tool that allowed them to publish novels, short stories and poems, chapter by chapter, just like a real book." Many of the early titles were collaborative products: site members would post reactions...
...interest in his self-named brand to the French cosmetics giant L'Oreal for an undisclosed but enormous sum in 2003. But he continued to be the driving creative force behind the company. Until recently, Uemura twice-a-year personally demonstrated his makeup skills in public, showing off the latest in his Mode Makeup collections in Tokyo, London and sometimes New York City...
Since then, the Harvard figure has jumped to $405,872, according to the latest figures from the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), a non-partisan research group that tracks campaign donations...
...Paul shout "Tax Hike Mike" over the Huck boosters, who scream "We Like Mike," and the press is jammed by the dozens in the middle, unable to get through the front door to witness the day's crucial newsmaking moment, when the Huck-a-campaign pulls off its latest Huck-a-coup - the launch of the Huck-a-burger. Yes, this is really happening...
...around. Pakistan is a country in extremely dire straits, and given its tradition of corruption, nepotism, and violence—of which Bhutto’s assassination and the ascension of her 19-year-old son and husband to the leadership of her Pakistan Peoples Party is just the latest chapter—there is no clear path forward. Bhutto was, at most, the best of several mediocre alternatives. Her assassination should not cast her political career in a rosier light. Yet the past week has seen the continual distortion of Bhutto’s life by politicians and media...