Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is expressing intense joy through bear hugs and tweets.

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Most public figures are all outward passion, all backslapping, bear hugs, and (when the occasion calls for it) barely repressed tears.

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Then, of course, comes the NFL player draft, the zenith of off-season events a series of telephone calls and bear hugs reimagined as prime-time entertainment.

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And they wore it well, with their designer suits that barely were ruffled when they each engulfed Roger Goodell in the now traditional bear hugs between draftee and commissioner.

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Besides the usual back-and-forth we enjoy with WowWee's products, 'panda also reads bedtime stories (we hear that it's fond of Bearinstein Bears), interacts with a MiniMe version of itself, and of course, delivers mad bear hugs to love-starved tykes.

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