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...Like the Downey film, Speed Racer is plenty satisfying in traditional action-movie terms. It boasts enough auto-erotic car-nage to make Grand Theft Auto IV seem, by comparison, like a junkyard jalopy. Beyond that, there's the edifying display of people taking control of their own destinies by building beautiful, useful machines. The heroes of Speed Racer and Iron Man could be the garage geeks who paved Silicon Valley with cybergold; or Hollywood's visual-effects alchemists, translating their fantasies into pixels to create gorgeous movies like these. Iron Man and Speed Racer are tributes to practical ingenuity...
Grand Theft Auto IV has been in my possession since midnight Monday in a Los Angeles mini-mall. Because the game is rated M for Mature, there were a few eager teens milling around in the parking lot, trying to bribe cool adults to get them a copy. What's worse? Buying teens cheap vodka or immersive sociopathic sandbox crime simulators...
...There seems to be a lot of time in the game allocated to text messaging, going on the Internet, and online activities. I wasted my life in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas pretending to work out; now I'm wasting my life in GTA: IV pretending to surf...
...Grand Theft Auto IV hits shelves today, parents and political pundits will be sure to debate the effect of the new installment of the game—that has frequently been seen as controversial due to its portrayal of violence—on teenage behavior. But in their recently published book Grand Theft Childhood, Medical School Professors Cheryl K. Olson and Lawrence A. Kutner say that this link may be more tenuous than previously thought. In 2004, Olson and Kutner began a $1.5 million study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice to tease out the connection between...
...There are three or four teams gunning for [the last at large spots], so we’re just hoping the committee likes how we played during the year,” senior co-captain Lauren Snyder said. HARVARD 9, CONNECTICUT COLLEGE 3With hopes of snatching an auto-bid into Easterns dashed, Harvard trotted out all six of its seniors as against the Camels. In quite possibly their last game together in the pool, the six seniors (Cassandra Forsyth, Melissa McCreery, Melissa Mueller, Lauren Stoppel and co-captains Vivian Liao and Lauren Snyder – who played with tape...