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Mitchell tells me he volunteered to review the animated Pokemon 2000 just to poke fun at the paper’s insistence on honorific titles...
...celebrate Kitty’s thirtieth, the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations sponsored a conference last Saturday to find out exactly what makes Japanese cute culture—embodied by characters such as Pokemon, Sailor Moon and of course, Kitty—such an enduring phenomenon.Co-organizer Samuel H. Lipoff ’04 says that while “cuteness is everywhere in Japan,” it has hardly been recognized as a serious subject in academia. Lipoff says that, in the West, there is a great amount of cynicism and myth surrounding Hello...
...helps to tap into a student's interests. For Monique Beltran, 13, of Los Angeles, the turning point came with the computer game Pokemon. "I had to read to get to more levels," she says matter-of-factly. The computer game also showed Monique the value of reading outside of schoolwork, and she is eagerly devouring the latest Harry Potter book...
With handsome features and a name that sounds like a Pokemon toy, Bryant has the rep of a star a prim mother or an innocent kid could love. "For teenage girls especially," says Peter Zollo of the polling firm Teen Research Unlimited, "Kobe is way up there. Where Allen Iverson's been the bad boy, Kobe has been the pretty...
...billion Retail sales of Pokemon merchandise since its U.S. launch...