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...coolly narrated stories of odd disappearances, bizarre quests, disaffected youth and a Japan struggling with its wartime past. He is also noted for his nonfiction books about the 1995 Kobe earthquake and Tokyo subway gas attack, as well as his translations of works by American masters, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Raymond Carver. So vast is Murakami's fame that nearly as many books have been written about him as by him. A Taiwanese newspaper has even suggested that his visage may one day grace a Japanese banknote, as does that of Meiji-era novelist Soseki Natsume, a Murakami influence...
...coolly narrated stories of odd disappearances, bizarre quests, disaffected youth and a Japan struggling with its wartime past. He is also noted for his nonfiction books about the 1995 Kobe earthquake and Tokyo subway gas attack, as well as his translations of works by American masters, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Raymond Carver. So vast is Murakami's fame that nearly as many books have been written about him as by him. A Taiwan newspaper has even suggested that his visage may one day grace a Japanese banknote, as does that of Meiji-era novelist Soseki Natsume, a Murakami influence...
...boxing tale that screenwriter Paul Haggis based on the stories of F.X. Toole, a former ringside "cut man." That was the trade of Frankie Dunn (Eastwood), who with his pal Eddie (Morgan Freeman) now runs a gym for boxing hopefuls, most without a hope. The longest shot is Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank). She hasn't a prayer, or a clue, but she's determined to be the champ and ... can you guess what happens...
...Explorer; children as young as 3 interact with the videos via a push-button controller. VTech has a new video-game platform aimed at kids 3 to 7, called VSmile--for learning, of course. "Moms aren't happy when their kids want to play video games," says Julia Fitzgerald, a VTech marketing executive. "We wanted to take this play pattern and make it work for moms." Hasbro came out with a portable color video player this year, called VideoNow, and has been putting classic games like Battleship, Boggle and Yahtzee into handheld electronic format...
According to Fitzgerald, families with incomes between $30,000 and $45,000 will be hardest hit, and 84,000 students will be entirely knocked off the federal grant rolls. The American Council on Education estimated that 1.2 million students would see reduced aid. Families with incomes of under $25,000 will not be affected, Fitzgerald said...