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...Grand Theft Auto IV has been in my possession since midnight Monday in a Los Angeles mini-mall. Because the game is rated M for Mature, there were a few eager teens milling around in the parking lot, trying to bribe cool adults to get them a copy. What's worse? Buying teens cheap vodka or immersive sociopathic sandbox crime simulators...
...were going to come back, but I didn’t think it would take that long,” Walsh said. Albright’s clutch hit was payback for a highlight-reel-worthy play in the previous inning: Big Green left fielder Jason Blydell took a grand slam away from Crimson freshman Dillon O’Neill by grabbing a hard-hit ball from beyond the outfield fence, maintaining the shutout and bringing the many fans who had traveled from Hanover to their feet. Dartmouth lefty slugger Santomauro wasted no time getting the Big Green on the board...
...team in home runs with four and in RBI with 22. During Saturday’s nightcap, the squad was inches away from two more home runs. Rogers hit a warning track shot in the bottom of the ninth, and in the fifth inning, Blydell robbed a would-be-grand slam off the bat of freshman Dillon O’Neill.In the end, the long ball couldn’t win games for the Crimson. The Big Green’s balanced offense assault averaged seven runs per game. —Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached...
...Grand Theft Auto IV hits shelves today, parents and political pundits will be sure to debate the effect of the new installment of the game—that has frequently been seen as controversial due to its portrayal of violence—on teenage behavior. But in their recently published book Grand Theft Childhood, Medical School Professors Cheryl K. Olson and Lawrence A. Kutner say that this link may be more tenuous than previously thought. In 2004, Olson and Kutner began a $1.5 million study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice to tease out the connection between...
...overall goal of the “Take Back the Music” contest is to help change the way that artists and the public approach hip-hop, both in its creation and its reception. This year’s grand prize winners, Jennifer “Nesi” Chanesi of Rhode Island and Justin “Jae Guttah” McGibbon of Pennsylvania, won full scholarships to the 2008 Berklee Five-Week Summer Performance Program. Through prizes like these, the “Take Back the Music” contest hopes to assist the participants in developing...