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Of Guerrillas and Refugees.(reader response to poverty in Colombia)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999 ... Our Aug. 9 report on Colombia's overlooked war and its humanitarian crisis touched many readers. "Congratulations on an excellent article," praised one; another took the U.S. media to task for "focusing exclusively on the narco-traffic ...

Colombia's Forgotten Crisis.

Sep 06, 1999 ... Congratulations on your excellent article on Colombia's hardships ("Casualties of War," World Affairs, Aug. 9). The Colombian people are caught in the battles, the crimes, the bombing back and forth between the guerrillas and the armed forces. The guerrillas already control about 42,000 ...

Ban the Cluster Bombs.

Sep 06, 1999 ... When operation allied force was launched in order to stop Serbian troops from attacking the Kosovars, NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana told us that it was a humanitarian operation whose target was by no means the Serbs. So why did NATO use cluster bombs it knew could kill or injure ...

In Defense of Ulster Unionists.

Sep 06, 1999 ... Your report on Ulster protestants was nothing short of disgraceful ("Time for a Makeover," News of the Week, July 19). It was an insult to the law- abiding majority of Northern Ireland, who have been under siege for the past 30 years. And let us not forget that the Ulster Unionists have ...

Revisiting Woodstock '99.

Sep 06, 1999 ... I was on vacation in the United States recently when Woodstock '99 was being held, and although I was not able to go to the concerts myself, I enjoyed some of the bands on radio and television. Then, on Monday morning, we got the awful report on the rioting and looting that had been going ...

God's Alive and Well.

Sep 06, 1999 ... Your feature on Western Europe's post-Christian society was relevant and informative ("Lost in Silent Prayer," Society & the Arts, July 12). It raises more questions than it provides answers. But collectively it makes the fundamental mistake of equating religion, or faith, with church ...

Thailand's Recovery.

Sep 06, 1999 ... It was really unfortunate, NEWSWEEK, that you chose that silly headline "Beyond Sex and Golf," for your informative article on Thailand's economic situation (Asia, July 12). I thought that catchy title made your magazine look like a poor English ...

Creating Cancer.

Sep 06, 1999 ... I was fascinated by your article on altering human genes to make tumors in a laboratory ("To Build a Cancer Cell," Society & the Arts, Aug. 9). Robert Weinberg and William Hahn's achievement in finding this clue to understanding how cancer starts is very exciting, indeed. As a scientist, I ...

The Dollar-Euro Equation.

Sep 06, 1999 ... So Martin Hufner thinks it is wonderful that the new euro and the dollar are now worth roughly the same amount ("What's So Bad About 1:1?," World View, June 14)? American tourists won't have to solve complicated mathematical problems while vacationing in Europe. I don't suppose it has ever ...

How Much Blood Is Too Much?

Sep 06, 1999 ... I have always found NEWSWEEK's photos to be riveting, honest and in good taste. But I have to say that the one you ran showing Atlanta murderer Mark Barton's bloody, lifeless body ("'It's a Bad Trading Day ...and It's About to Get Worse," U.S. Affairs, ...

The Children Who Love to Hate : What does a 9-year-old Kosovar Albanian child want to do when he grows up? 'Kill Serbs.'.(Albanian, Serb children taught to distrust one another)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... It was a feel-good scene in post-war Kosovo. British NATO troops had just finished fixing up the Our Happiness Kindergarten in Pristina. Soldiers of the 7th Signals Regiment put on a barbecue. Ethnic Albanian children ages 4 to 7 joined hands and sang, in English, "I'm a free, free child ...

Aliens in Their Own Land : Boom times have left the Mapuche Indians behind.(Chile)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... His ancestors' dominions once covered a third of modern Chile. These days Jose Antilao, 54, lives near a muddy rural crossroads and grieves for the pride of centuries past, when the Mapuche Indians refused to be subjugated--either by the mighty Inca empire or by the Spanish conquistadors ...

Chinese Shadows : Calls to control the press are just the latest signs of Hong Kong's fading autonomy.

Sep 06, 1999; ... Hong Kong radio producer Chan Yiu-wah was anxiously searching for the limit of his freedom, and now he's found it. As Britain prepared to hand over Hong Kong to China in 1997, Chan worried about just how much the new rulers would tolerate on his popular morning talk show. Chan proceeded as ...

Escaping Green Island : How political criminals and gangsters got away.(Green Island, Taiwan, used as penal colony)

Sep 06, 1999; ... The Tsai family goes back six generations on Green Island, the legendary penal colony where Taiwan has exiled its worst troublemakers since early this century. And from their living room, which opens like a storefront on the only street in town, the Tsais have borne witness to a remarkable ...

'No Walk in the Park' : Australian adventurers test more than their mettle.(people get lost in Australian outback)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... When rescuers finally found Robert Bogucki in Australia's Great Sandy Desert on Aug. 23, he had been missing for nearly a month and a half. Bible in hand, the 33-year-old Alaskan firefighter had gone into the wilderness to "make peace with God." But it was people, not angels, who were his ...

Europe's Got Net Fever : The symptoms are clear: Hot new companies, job offers featuring Ferraris and a certain swagger as bright young businessfolk stake their claims in cyberspace.(Internet-related companies are being formed in Europe by those who have observed and benefitted from the American experience)

Sep 06, 1999; ... Nick Denton didn't plan to leave his perfectly good job as technology correspondent for the Financial Times when he moved to California. But after sitting across from "one too many guys who were younger than me and having more fun," the 33-year-old former journalist simply couldn't help ...

AOL's European Adventure : Across the pond, things are different.(a number of Internet-rerlated companies have expanded to Europe and had to adjust their methods of doing business, but none more so that America Online Europe)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... Think global, act local, say the business gurus. But they rarely add what AOL Europe now knows: that second step is the hard one. When rival Freeserve introduced no-fee Net access in Britain last fall, AOL Europe chief Andreas Schmidt calmly observed that "free Internet access doesn't work ...

The Big Test : Across the world, education reform is now seen as indispensable to economic success. Fine; but remember the children.(schools are becoming an extension of a country's economic policy)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... It has become the closest thing to a global conventional wisdom: a nation's economic prosperity is intimately tied to its stock of human capital, and its human capital depends on the quality of its educational system. And so, in rich countries and poor, from suburbs of the United States to ...

Learning to Think : Asians are trying to prepare kids for the Information Age. Can creativity be taught?(some Asian countries are beginning to abandon their emphasis on tests in an effort to lessen student stress and to allow more creativity)

Sep 06, 1999; ... Every year, as the rice seedlings first shoot up in Taiwan's glistening paddies, students make their final preparations for the university- entrance exams, and the horror stories begin. Sometimes, a body is found floating in the dirty urban river under a concrete underpass. Or anxious ...

Goodbye to the Nanny? : Singapore is teaching kids to think independently but not rebelliously.

Sep 06, 1999; ... At the Crescent Girls School, clean-cut teenagers in neat yellow shirts and navy blue skirts sit at computer terminals at the cybercafe in the canteen. In a sparkling new science lab, girls cluster around more terminals, researching the cardiovascular system. The teacher is hard to find ....

Reaching the 'New Youth' : Alarmed by alienation among kids, Japan's educators are trying new ways to teach.(new schools hope to address apathy and violence)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... Keiko Okuchi started a school to save kids like her son, Takuo, from dropping out. Okuchi had been a grade-school teacher for more than a decade when Takuo, a teenager, began refusing to go to class. Okuchi struggled for several years with her son's aversion to school--and tutored him to ...

A Ride in a Gondola : Look out, Cannes. Hollywood execs are holding out for the older and classier Venice Film Festival.(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... Last March, Alberto Barbera, the new director of the Venice Film Festival, went to Hollywood to apologize. His predecessor, Felice Laudadio, had spent two years ostracizing the U.S. film establishment by declaring his preference for young, unknown directors over august auteurs and top box- ...

Paramilitary Patriarch : In a rare interview, vigilante leader Ramon Isaza talks about his 21-year private war against the country's leftist guerrillas and his determination to fight on.(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... The old man could be just another aging Colombian campesino--except for his bodyguards, the gold ring on his left hand and the automatic pistol strapped to his waist. He speaks the slurred Spanish of a peasant farmer, and Ramon Isaza, 59, looks the part in his white straw hat and knockoff ...

A Disaster's Brighter Side.(Turkey earthquake may help bring down political corruption)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... The Turkish earthquake shattered not only lives, homes and industries but Turks' confidence in their state. Many Turks believed the government was responsible for many of the 40,000 estimated deaths. They blamed authorities for failing to enforce building codes and responding sluggishly in ...

Remembering The Wire Cutters : Hungary's gutsy border opening 10 years ago was crucial to bringing down the Iron Curtain.(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... Quick, rerun the images of Central Europe in 1989 in your mind and what do you see? Certainly the charismatic shipyard electrician Lech Walesa, the workers' hero who exploded the myth of the workers' state, leading the Solidarity delegation to the round-table negotiations with the ...

Concerns Of A Businessman: The community will be watching to see that Hong Kong's values remain constant.(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... Two years after Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty, certain principles that are essential to the city's success are being questioned. Foremost among them are judicial independence and government fair play. The recent right-of-abode debate sparked fears of a politicized legal system ...

World View: How We Fight A Losing War : The time is right for Latin and North Americans to rethink a failed drug policy.(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... In the central-western canyons of the Mexican border state of Chihuahua, where waterfalls and abandoned mines blend in with secret landing strips and vertical mountain plots, the few remaining peasants have a choice. They can cultivate corn on barren cliffs, or they can receive 300 pesos ...

From Much Death, One Life : How an Israeli rescue team responded to the earthquake with military precision and good will for a regional ally.(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999; ... Turkey's earthquake cracked the world's heart. Sixty-five countries, even old rivals like Greece and Armenia, sent aid. And in those first days after the Aug. 17 disaster, when foreign rescue teams walked through Turkey's cities, whole streets applauded them. But by last week, after the ...

Perspectives.

Sep 06, 1999 ... "This plea is more than acceptable from our point. This is not Maryland." Israeli Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein, referring to the 24-year jail sentence accepted by American Samuel Sheinbein, the 19-year-old who fled to Israel after committing first-degree murder in ...

A Papal Pilgrimage to Iraq.(Pope wishes to travel route Abraham took)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999 ... Fresh from a foiled attempt to visit China last month, Pope John Paul II is finalizing travel plans to another controversial destination: Iraq. The trip, planned for Dec. 2-5, would be part of the pontiff's millennial tour of Biblical sites and would include a meeting with Saddam Hussein. ...

Bogota Busts?(wife of Army colonel accused of mailing cocaine to US from Colombia)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999 ... Laurie Anne Hiett, the wife of an Army colonel assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, made headlines earlier this month when she was accused of mailing cocaine to the United States, a charge she denies. NEWSWEEK has learned she may not be the first embassy wife to be suspected of drug ...

Will Carolyn's Mother Sue?(mother of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy could sue for wrongful death)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999 ... Is Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's mother gearing up to sue for wrongful death? In filing documents last week that would give her control of her deceased daughters' estates, Anne Freeman indicated there could be grounds for a wrongful-death or personal-injury lawsuit. Carolyn and John F ....

King of Pop.(art dealer Leo Castelli)(Brief Article)(Obituary)

Sep 06, 1999 ... When Leo Castelli died last week at the age of 91, it seemed like the art world had lost its emperor. The Trieste-born dealer opened his first New York art gallery in 1957, but the big-time abstract expressionists were already taken. So he discovered Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and ...

Goodbye, Lady Di.(little mourning on second anniversary of princess's death)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999 ... The second anniversary of Princess Diana's death came and went on Aug. 31, and Britain barely noticed. The mourning machine has been sputtering for months. Plans for a statue near Kensington Palace appear to have been scrapped. The museum at ...

You, Ambitious. Me, Sex Crazed.(Encarta Spanish dictionary caused sexist)(Brief Article)

Sep 06, 1999 ... Microsoft's new Encarta English Dictionary has made headlines around the world for being multicultural. Meanwhile, its Spanish dictionary has made headlines in Spain for being sexist. The dictionary, which comes with the Spanish version of Microsoft Word '97, offers different definitions ...

Hollywood's Bad Boy Makes Good : Mike De Luca's wild antics used to create more buzz than his movies. Now he's one of the industry's hottest execs.(production executive)

Sep 13, 1999; ... Some people like to tan by the pool. In March of last year, Michael De Luca showed up at the William Morris Agency's Oscar party at a home in Pacific Palisades. He was in his early 30s, and had already made a name for himself as the president of New Line Cinema, a subsidiary of Time ...

The Trendy Diet That Sizzles : A counterintuitive program reaches critical mass.(diet program that emphasizes meat)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... For those who consider it a food of the gods, bacon has long been existential proof that life among mortals is shabby and meaningless. Why else would something that provides such gustatory pleasure turn out to be supposedly the worst thing you could ever eat? Things got so bad that a few ...

Letters.

Sep 13, 1999 ... Our Aug. 16 report on cosmetic surgery elicited a rare chorus of consensus from our readers: they voiced concern and contempt for the folks who pursue youth and beauty with a surgeon's help. "Inner radiance is what life is really all about," insisted one reader. Another asked if these ...

Correction.(to 'Holbrooke's Ultimatum: Perform or Perish' in Aug. 30, 1999 issue)(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)

Sep 13, 1999 ... Due to an editing error in a story about the United Nations' role in Kosovo, a quotation displayed on the page in large type was misattributed to Richard Holbrooke, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations ("Holbrooke's Ultimatum: Perform or ...

Taking a Jab at Wal-Mart : Two French firms join forces to challenge the giant.(supermarket market share in France)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... While consumers and food makers fret about genetically modified food, grocery stores have another worry: how to stay alive in an industry that, like all the others, is rapidly consolidating and going global. Wal-Mart is the industry's 600-pound gorilla, a U.S. retailer that dwarfs its ...

Berlin's Fresh Faces : They're the 'youngsters'; a new generation of politicians determined to challenge old ideologies and 'obsolete' ways of thinking about government.(Germany)

Sep 13, 1999; ... At 33, Hans Martin Bury represents a new breed of Germans. Instead of a hike in the Black Forest, his idea of a good time is scuba diving in Mauritius or Costa Rica. Unlike the older generation of politicians who steadily expanded the welfare state, he's convinced the state has to do less ...

A Half Century of Nuclear Blasts : And the environmental fallout is just beginning.(nuclear bombs set off in Siberia to create holding tanks)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... Gulmira Azhakhmedova remembers the day almost 20 years ago when the authorities in her riverside village of Seitovka, just outside Astrakhan in southern Russia, told her to remove all the dishes from her shelves and go stand outside. She remembers how the ground shook and cracked ...

A Buoyant Ending : In the final weeks before Argentina elects its next president, no one like Carlos Menem is in the race. How his 10 years in power irrevocably changed the country.

Sep 13, 1999; ... Gone are the hokey poncho and the outlandish salmon neckties he affected a decade ago. Gone, too, is the cortege of millionaires, models and movie stars who used to cling as close as noonday shadows around Carlos Menem's footsteps. These days even the defiant Ferrari Testarossa, an emblem ...

A Three-Star Perspective : French chef Michel Bras on the importance of good food.(Brief Article)(Interview)

Sep 13, 1999 ... Michel Bras is one of the greatest chefs in Europe, and one of the most original. The restaurant that bears his name recently received its third star in the Michelin Guide, a ranking defined as "exceptional cuisine worth a special journey." The restaurant sits in the town of Laguiole, deep ...

Menem On The Record : 'Even Jesus aroused great hatred but also great love'.(Argentina's president Carlos Saul Menem)(Brief Article)(Interview)

Sep 13, 1999 ... When Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem passes the sash to his successor on Dec. 10, he will have completed an unprecedented 10 years and five months in office. He is now writing his biography and planning a series of trips abroad to speak about the last decade in Argentina. Last week ...

Strike and Struggle : Radical students wage a war they've already lost.(strike of university students continues in Mexico)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... Until recently, 29-year-old Alejandro (El Mosh) Echevarria was known around the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) mostly for his dreadlocks and rants against capitalism. In these days of Mexico's free-market economy, it might seem easy to dismiss him as an ...

The Mystery Man and the Missile : This time, Pyongyang's neighbors and patrons alike have had enough. Is Kim Jong Il at last ready to deal?(work on what seemed to be a giant missile in North Korea has united the country's neighbors against it)

Sep 13, 1999; ... Like so many threats from North Korea, it was impossible to be sure the dreaded new missile was real. But starting in midsummer, a gathering stream of intelligence reports suggested that this rocket was a giant. Spy satellites watching a remote northeastern launch site at Musudan-Ri ...

The Method to the Madness : Sure it sounds crazy, but North Korea has a clear record of brandishing missiles to press for peace, not war.(it is possible that North Korea is using the threat of missile production to bring about talks with the United States)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... North Korea's threat to test a new ballistic missile capable of hitting the United States was greeted in Washington as the raving of a renegade state. But there is method to Pyongyang's madness and the trick, as a senior American official once put it to me, is to pick the "nuggets of ...

One Thug, One Vote.(a vote for independence in East Timor ends with a massacre by pro-Indonesian troops)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... The most defiant act of their lives started like a stealth operation. Before dawn on the day of East Timor's referendum on independence from Indonesia, a schoolteacher named Armindo Florindo trekked into the deforested hills to round up hundreds of frightened villagers. They were hiding ...

Prayers for an Elephant : Thailand's latest land-mine victim stirs emotions and renews concern over the plight of the pachyderms.(an elephant, wounded by a land mine, brings to the consciousness of Thailand citizens the plight of the country's elephant population, and the dangers of land mines)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... The world hardly needs more poster material for the plight of land-mine victims. But Motala is as innocent as they come. The 38-year-old Asian elephant stepped on a land mine deep in the war-torn jungle in southern Burma while rummaging for food on a break from her heavy workload. She was ...

A Whale's Journey Down Under.(rare southern right whale stops over in Sydney, Australia)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... A 50-ton visitor from the Antarctic has turned whale watching into a citywide obsession in Sydney, Australia. A rare southern right whale has been bobbing around the city's beaches, delighting onlookers by leaping out of the water, flipping her tail or popping her head above the waves. ...

Costume Party : Critics charge irrelevance as Asia-Pacific leaders prepare for a big summit in Auckland.(Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... In New Zealand, where sheep outnumber people 15 to one, folks know how to party. This weekend's bash promises to be the biggest in a long while. Five top chefs have been dispatched across the fjords and through the forests to find the best ingredients for a massive feast. A renowned ...

The Presidential Pipeline : With elections approaching, candidates are fighting for the support of Russia's natural-gas giant.(Gazprom will be a key player in Russian election)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... Gazprom is the kind of corporate backer even a U. S. presidential candidate could want on his side. Russia's natural-gas giant has annual sales of $16 billion--not to mention an airline, a collection of newspapers and a one-third stake in NTV, one of Russia's most influential TV stations ....

The Jewish Priest : World War II's hidden children learn the truth.(a Catholic priest discovers he is actually a Jew)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... It was 1943, in German-occupied Swieciany, a town that belonged to Poland before World War II and is part of Lithuania today. A Jewish mother frantically asked an illiterate Polish Catholic woman to take her newborn baby. Discovery, the Catholic woman knew, would mean execution. But she ...

A Dictatorship in the Making?(Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may be going too far in efforts to wipe out corruption)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999 ... The victims of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's "peaceful revolution" continue to mount. Last week Roberto Mandini, the head of the country's powerful state-run oil company, resigned, citing differences with the government over management issues. And Mandini, a widely respected free ...

How to Succeed in Business.(London executive and patron of the arts Fields Wicker-Miurin)(Brief Article)(Interview)

Sep 13, 1999 ... Blending art, culture and commerce is Fields Wicker-Miurin's forte. Currently a vice president of the Global Financial Markets division of A.T. Kearney, she's also been a director of the London Stock Exchange, a member of the Royal Society of Arts in London and a director of the London ...

Out of the Cell, Into the Fire.(Malaysian activist Lim Guan Eng)(Brief Article)(Interview)

Sep 13, 1999; ... Lim Guan Eng, released from prison two weeks ago, is rallying new life into the opposition in Malaysia. The multiracial coalition faces an imminent election against Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's ruling front. With the jailing of Mahathir's deputy Anwar Ibrahim last year, the reformasi ...

It Is A Bad Time for Jeremiahs : Never mind lamentations about America's divisions. Its cohesion remains remarkable.(presidential candidate John McCain's pessimistic view of America)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999; ... This presidential campaign's Jeremiah is John McCain, who in Los Angeles recently spoke of "an environment of disaffection, contempt and hate that poisons our land." He was speaking to the Anti-Defamation League six days after the shooting at the Jewish community center, so his hyperbole ...

The Big Food Fight SUBTITLE: Europeans are railing against 'Frankenstein foods' -- genetically modified crops that abound in America. And exporters have been forced to listen.

Sep 13, 1999; ... Don't look for the southern French town of Montredon on your globe. It isn't even on local road maps, perhaps because it has only 20 inhabitants. But one of them, a Parisian intellectual turned activist farmer named Jose Bove, may change that. He's the leader of the mobs of farmers who've ...

Perspectives.(various quotes from around the world)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999 ... "Philistines, we don't like your way of life." Part of a note decrying Russian materialism left by the Revolutionary Writers, the group claiming responsibility for the Aug. 31 bombing of a Moscow shopping center that injured 41 people "These people need to be shot." Moscow Mayor ...

Down and Dirty on the Campaign Trail.(elections in India)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999 ... Normally, elections in India are festive, like carnivals. But this year's poll, which runs from Sept. 5 through Oct. 3, has quickly descended into a vicious campaign of mudslinging. It all started Aug. 26 when Pramod Mahajan, a BJP minister, attacked Italian-born Sonia Gandhi's ...

That's Progress.(Israel, Palestine and Wye accord)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999 ... With a push from Madeleine Albright, Israel and the Palestinians finally agreed to revive the stalled Wye accord. The breakthrough centered on the release of Palestinian prisoners and paves the way for "final status" ...

Challenging the Chaebols.(South Korea's Hyundia)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999 ... Last week Hyundai, South Korea's largest chaebol, became the latest conglomerate to be put in the hot seat. Only a few weeks after the government dismantled Daewoo, prosecutors placed travel bans on nine top Hyundai execs on charges of manipulating the stock price. The company firmly ...

Oh, Lord, What Have I Done?(Britain's House of Lords)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999 ... Defend your existence in 75 words or less. tough assignment, no? As part of a controversial effort to slim down Britain's House of Lords, the 759 hereditary peers have been ordered to submit brief manifestoes explaining why they should keep their jobs. This fall the lords will vote to ...

I'm OK, You're Mononoke: Anime Arrives.(Pokemon and Princess Mononoke)(Brief Article)

Sep 13, 1999 ... Pokemania rolled on last week, becoming the no. 1 saturday cartoon. Next import: "Princess Mononoke," an animated film second only to "Titanic" in Japanese box-office history. Pokemon she ain't--but anime isn't all cute little monsters. A PERI guide: Pokemon gross revenue, ...