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...such game franchises as God of War, Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid, Lost Planet, Prince of Persia, EverQuest, Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, the blessed Sims and, yikes, PacMan. (Can't wait for other retro movies based on the earliest video games: Frogger, Space Invaders and - some French minimalist director'll do it - Pong...
...foreign governments provided blanket guarantees for their deposits, money started to move to what looked like safe havens. Other countries had to respond. A few European governments have been far more thoughtful than the U.S. in figuring out what needs to be done. Even before the crisis turned global, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in his address to the U.N. last month, called for a world summit to lay the foundations for more state regulation to replace the current laissez-faire approach. We may be at a new "Bretton Woods moment." As the world emerged from the Great Depression and World...
...boat—nicknamed the “God Squad”—their senior year. That eight not only won Eastern Sprints, all its dual races, and the IRAs, but also went to the Lucerne World Cup right before the 2004 Olympics, beating the English and French national boats on the way to the final.Cameron also praised the Head of the Charles, mentioning the memorable one they rowed in as freshman, the first college race they had ever won. “We got these prison shirts [for our uniform] and we ended up winning the race...
...third-place finish at IRAs to very strong California and Washington teams.“Bill [Manning] is a really good coach, and he was able to keep us in line and keep us in the right mentality throughout the season,” said sophomore Benjamin French, who stroked the first freshman boat to success last year.“Sprints finals were kind of an epic moment, just in terms of commitment to the race and how we felt afterwards,” he added. “I feel like it had the most anticipation?...
...your clumsy pronunciation is so old school. You can now cross the language barrier with Lonely Planet's audio phrasebooks for mobile phones. Local linguists have recorded 600 phrases - "Do you have a room?" or "Can you recommend a bar?" - in 10 languages (Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Thai and Czech, with more promised soon). You simply play them through your phone's speakers. You can download the app onto iPhones (go to the App Store), BlackBerrys and any cell phone running the Java midp 2.0 platform or Windows Mobile. You can also buy the program from...