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Educated as an electrical engineer, Kutaragi joined Sony in 1975 and helped develop several cutting-edge products: a liquid-crystal-display projector, a sophisticated sound-processing chip, an early digital camera. And when a joint venture with Nintendo to build a home-video-game console broke down in 1990, Kutaragi demonstrated vision and management expertise. Rather than concede the business to Nintendo, he formed a team within Sony to build a better system, pressing ahead against internal opposition. PlayStation, released in late 1994, vaulted over Nintendo's Super NES to become the world's top home-gaming platform...
...class suburb of Athens with five friends. "We were passing through a local square, and these everyday-looking guys were standing there shouting 'Bloody Pakis' and other abuse," he says. There were about 50 young men, and some of them began throwing bottles at Aslam and his friends. They broke into a run; four of them got away, but Aslam and one of his friends were surrounded. "I was pushed to the pavement and kicked in the face and ribs several times," he says. "They did not look drunk or out of control. They seemed to know exactly what they...
...deficit, Germany, in 2004, will be above the limit for the third year in a row. The defendant duo's message to the European Commission was blunt: Sorry, some of us are more equal than others, and don't slap us with a heavy fine just because we broke the stability pact. They won the day for the same reason that a schoolyard bully gets away with stealing lunch money: the others simply aren't strong enough to stop him. So Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal voted to suspend the pact and to withhold sanctions...
...Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran warned the country's divided leadership he would revive his demands for an independent state if the peace process remained stalled. He denied accusations by President Chandrika Kumaratunga that the rebels are using the current truce as a cover to re-arm. Peace talks broke down last month when Kumaratunga said the government was making too many concessions to the Tigers. Hostage Handover COLOMBIA Leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN) released two of the seven foreign tourists it had been holding hostage since Sept. 12, following church-mediated talks. The ELN pledged...
...Tulloch broke away from the pack in race nine. She finished in second overall, 20 points behind Tunnicliffe and 10 points ahead of Devlin in third...