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...where Mattel owns the rights to the game. Hasbro, which owns the rights to Scrabble in the U.S., says it has no plans to change any of the game's rules. This will likely be greeted with relief in the U.S., where Scrabble is not just popular as a board game but also as an electronic game on Facebook and mobile phones. (It's the ninth top-grossing app on the iPhone and fifth on the newly introduced iPad.) (See 12 early must-have iPad games...
Scrabble Trickster will include several deviations from the traditional rules. There will be squares on the board calling on players to draw cards, which may instruct them to forfeit a letter to an opponent or permit them to spell a word backward or use a proper noun. "Celebrity wars of words could now take place on a new battleground," Mattel spokeswoman Sarah Allen wrote in an e-mail. "It's another part of the process of expanding the brand - it's an evolution." In other words, you might be feeling pretty smug about laying down "Jay-Z" (23 points...
Mezzogiorno’s performance is enhanced exponentially by the powerful imagery of determination that accompanies her progressively bitter outlook on life. As she is seated in front of the daunting board of psychologists, Ida removes the human skull from the doctor’s desk to let them know that she is not swayed by the danger of her demise and will not be intimidated. Her obsession transforms into a desire for retribution when she realizes Mussolini has long since left her behind in light of his political successes, many of which she helped him achieve early...
Stephanie D. Wilson ’88, a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, launched into space for the third time yesterday on the space shuttle Discovery...
Wilson started her term on the Board of Overseers, Harvard’s second-highest governing body, in 2007. She has also returned to Harvard several times to lecture about her experiences as an astronaut, according to John W. Hutchinson, who taught her as an undergraduate in Engineering Sciences 120: “Introduction to the Mechanics of Solids...