Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense something's agitating your kids, intervene. Michael Thompson, a Boston-based clinical psychologist specializing in children and adolescents, asks parents, "Is the violence that a boy is enacting on Nintendo translating into his daily life? Is he more aggressive when he's playing, or meaner to his brother, or less respectful of his parents? Then you have to put limits on him. But if it isn't affecting his behavior, if it stays in the realm of fantasy, that's a sign of health...
...playing Quake, he recently told his dad that he especially enjoyed Grand Theft Auto, a particularly violent video game in which the player gets points by stealing cars and killing police officers. Unaware his son had this game, Tom asked him why he bought it, considering his older half brother is a policeman. "Because it's fun," said Peter. "I know cops aren't bad. It doesn't make me want to go out and steal cars. Video games don't influence me." Tom says that had he known, he would have forbidden the purchase. But he hasn't taken...
William Stephenson: A brother can't drive a Lexus without pushing dope? Supposing he hit the Lotto number...
...character in a Shakespearean pantheon full of ambitious characters. Whereas a single murder or two is enough to guarantee the average character's downfall, or at the very least set events in motion for the tragic ending, as in Julius Caesar or Macbeth, Richard orders the death of his brother, young nephews, wife, Prince Edward, Henry VI, Rivers, Grey, Vaughan, Hastings and Buckingham. It is difficult to attempt to analyze his character psychologically because he seems so far removed from sanity, so possessed in the throes of total ambition...
...Merchants. Soon, Vina meets Ormus Cama, the son of the Merchants' good friends; the three begin an epic love triangle that will continue for 30 years until Vina is swallowed up in an earthquake. Unfortunately, Rushdie abandons his most vivid characters, leaving behind Ormus' alcoholic Anglophile father and murderous brother, as well as Rai's gambling father and business-minded mother as the threesome for-sake their old world and are lured to America by the newborn rock-and-roll explosion...