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...levels long because that was all the Elektronika's memory could handle. Inspired by the classic riddles and puzzles Pajitnov loved as a child, the game was so addictive he couldn't even stop playing long enough to finish programming it. "The program wasn't complicated," he told the Guardian. "There was no scoring, no levels. But I started playing and I couldn't stop." The game became known as Tetris, a combination of the Greek prefix tetra and Pajitnov's favorite sport, tennis. (See the top ten E3 2009 Announcements...
Indeed, expectations had been raised when the spokesman of the Guardian Council - the powerful body that vets the candidates - announced on April 11 that it "has never announced its opinion on whether a registrant is a man or a woman. Whenever a woman has been disqualified, it has been because she's lacked general competence." That was a tantalizing hint of a liberal interpretation for words in the constitution that are often perceived to block the candidacy of women. (See pictures of Iranians caught between tradition and modernity...
However, the interpretation of the word rejale rests with the jurists and clerics who make up the Guardian Council. All of them, of course, are men. And on Wednesday, they chose the candidates for the presidency. All of them, once again, were...
...conservative rules and is not one to push boundaries, said, "Let's face it: the decision makers are all men." With some resignation and an office that barely speaks of serious campaign preparation, she added, "Not one man among the candidates has so far stood up and asked the Guardian Council to consider women candidates with full equality." She adds, "They said gender wasn't an issue, but it was because they didn't consider the imbalance of opportunities between the genders...
...trailer for the film, put online earlier this year, stoked fears in von Trier fans of a mainstream sell-out; it "makes it seem, quite shockingly, like an uninspired piece of genre hackwork," wrote Xan Brooks on the Guardian blog. "Surely, that can't possibly be true." It's not. As von Trier has said in an interview with Knud Romer, he wrote Antichrist when he was bedridden by depression, and "I let the film flow to me instead of thinking it up... And because some of the material comes from my youth, it may be unreasonable, ecstatic." If even...