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Hong Kong Disney fights back, in a Mickey Mouse sort of wayIt's war! Shanghai to rival Hong Kong Disney as a bible theme park also joins the competition. Spike correspondent JON MARSH reveals that a series of exciting new attractions is being planned for Hong Kong. Shanghai has finally been given the green light to build a giant Disney theme park, one that will dwarf (geddit?) Hong Kong's very own version of the Magic Kingdom. What's more, a Hong Kong businessman has announced plans for a bible theme park, Harmony World to be built in the tourist hotspot of Tieling, Liaoning Province... Read More
The Story of Barack Obama's MotherEach of us lives a life of contradictory truths. We are not one thing or another. Barack Obama's mother was at least a dozen things. S. Ann Soetoro was a teen mother who later got a Ph.D. in anthropology; a white woman from the Midwest who was more comfortable in Indonesia; a natural-born mother obsessed with her work; a romantic pragmatist, if such a thing is possible. "When I think about my mother," Obama told me recently, "I think that there was a certain combination of being very grounded in who she was, what she believed in. Read More
