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...beer (if your cup is hit, you drink). The game was designed for the popular Nintendo Wii platform, and its maker had planned to release it as the first game in its new Frat Party Games series. But concerned parents began sending angry letters to JV Games and Nintendo - Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal even got in on the action, sending his own missives to the companies - until JV Games agreed to change the title of the game to Pong Toss and fill its pixelated cups with water...
...months, much of the Democratic Party intelligentsia in Washington has insisted that Obama must do the latter and pick an older, white, foreign-policy or establishment figure such as Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, even Senator Hillary Clinton of New York. The chatter from this class has been logical, based in polls and nonstop - and it stems in part from the fact that many of those who have been spreading it are aligned with some of those potential veeps...
...industry. While that could still happen, the image of Malone as anyone's No. 2 seemed strange. He will certainly be well rewarded for selling out to Bell Atlantic. His TCI and Liberty holdings would be worth about $1 billion in the merged company's stock, making the taciturn Connecticut Yankee one of the richest men in the country. With Smith as the front man, the deal distances Malone from some of his fiercest critics. He had become increasingly fed up with politicians and competitors who accused him of building his empire through ruthless, anticompetitive practices. (As a Senator, Vice...
...real small talk, and he'd ask a question,'' James once recalled. ''While you were answering, he'd have turned away and was thinking about music.'' Goodman reserved most of his free time for his wife Alice (Hammond's sister) and their two children at their Manhattan apartment or Connecticut retreat. This year it appeared that he was enjoying a resurgence. In March, PBS broadcast a special for which he fronted a band and sailed through such signature tunes as Let's Dance, Stealin' Apples and King Porter Stomp. The years had not diminished him much. There was the same...
...American employee doing equivalent work might be $12 an hour, the Chinese workers earn about $4 a day. Some U.S. firm, have long used foreign data centers to supplement their labor force for one-time tasks. In 1972, Boston-based John Hancock Insurance hired Key Universal, in Connecticut, to computerize more than 10 million documents, some dating back as far as half a century ago. Key Universal subcontracted the job to workers in Grenada, who labored for twelve months to transfer the information to magnetic tapes. Foreign concerns are becoming more aggressive in seeking clients for their sophisticated wares...