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In his speech at the 1988 Democratic Convention, Jackson was quite candid about the harsh realities of his youth.
"I was born in the slum," Jackson said in his 1988 convention speech, "but the slum was not born in me."
It was as if Columbine had never happened. I came to the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo--the first E3 since the Littleton, Colo., massacre--expecting to find the video- game industry in a defensive crouch. After all, everybody from my wife to the President has made hay out of the...
Yet inside the clamorous convention hall, that's just what the executives of the best-selling splatter games were doing--especially from pesky reporters. When I asked a designer for id, which makes Doom and Quake, if he would answer a few questions, he said sure. But when he heard...
It's the kind of image that only an expatriate could have made, and Steinberg, before anything else, was an expatriate. When dictators in the 1930s ranted about rootless Jews, Steinberg was what they had in mind. Born near Bucharest, Romania, the son of a printer (hence an early fascination...