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marketing, dressing their tutors in miniskirts and high heels or leather jackets to make them look like pop stars. Advertisements for these "tutor kings" and "tutor queens," as they are known in Cantonese, are splashed on giant roadside billboards, on the sides of shopping malls and on newspaper front pages.
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A wide-open field hopes for invitations to the Golden Globes' party
• Will the Golden Globes nominations bring focus to an awards season that's so far been blurry?
• The best-picture contenders are many, with early honors being given by various groups to the space odyssey "Gravity," the slave epic "12 Years a Slave," the futuristic romance "Her," the con-artist caper "American Hustle" and the folk tale "Inside Llewyn Davis."
• Also in the mix: the finance world comedy "The Wolf of Wall Street," the Somali pirate tale "Captain Phillips," the HIV drama "Dallas Buyers Club," the father-son road trip "Nebraska," the making-of "Mary Poppins" story "Saving Mr. Banks," the Civil rights history "Lee Daniels' The Butler" and "August: Osage County," the starry adaptation of Tracy Letts' prize-winning play.
• Perhaps we'll get more clarity on the season when the nominations for the 71st annual Golden Globes are announced Thursday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana and Aziz Ansari will be on hand to read the results.
• Since the Globes divide many of their categories in two, between drama and comedy or musical, there's a lot of room for all of the above movies -- even if some films will have to contort themselves to slide into one category or the other.
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Kerry returning to Mideast to push security ideas, peace talks with Israelis, Palestinians
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Continuing a furious pace of shuttle diplomacy aimed at securing an elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by spring, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in the Middle East on Thursday on his ninth trip of the year.
• In closed-door talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday and Friday, Kerry will be following up on elements of a West Bank security plan, ideas for which he unveiled on his most (Continued on page 24)
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