In case your memory is super bad, we've included the clip of Kudo after the break.

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Next up is the most significant change with Windows Phone 7.8, and Redmond's sole kudo: the ability to re-size Live Tiles.

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Fujiwara H, Takayama S, Iwasaki K, Tabuchi M, Yamaguchi T, Sekiguchi K, Ikarashi Y, Kudo Y, Kase Y, Arai H, Yaegashi N.

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"The people in the Tokyo area were momentarily thrown off, " said Tetsuya Kudo, deputy manager in the proprietary-trading department of midsize brokerage Yamawa Securities Co.

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Yasushi Kudo, head of the Genron NPO, an NGO seeking to improve Sino-Japanese relations, sees a growing danger in Japan of populists milking the China issue for political ends.

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We hope by now you've seen the video of Microsoft's Kudo Tsunoda demoing the latest software to undergo the Project Natal treatment -- Beautiful Katamari and Space Invaders Extreme.

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Fujiwara H, Tabuchi M, Yamaguchi T, Iwasaki K, Furukawa K, Sekiguchi K, Ikarashi Y, Kudo Y, Higuchi M, Saido TC, Maeda S, Takashima A, Hara M, Yaegashi N, Kase Y, Arai H.

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Tis the season for the travel industry to publish its "best" lists, an annual exercise in stocktaking and kudo-bestowing that can prove as rewarding for the public as it is for publicists.

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But the biggest kudo should go to the whistleblower who had the guts to expose a high-stakes, secretive world that fosters and hides large-scale fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, corruption and other wrongdoing.

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