Word: hansons
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...believable enough given unbelievable characters, I did cringe on several occasions in response to what will probably go down as some of the worst teenage film acting of this year. Let’s just say that Bobby’s pals - sounding more like Van Halen than Hanson - should stay put playing in the garage (lest their man-boy voices betray their steroid use). Joe Mantegna, having grown tired of the caustic straight talk from his David Mamet days, instead opts for the sappy rubbish of what is effectively Joan of Arcadia Redux...
...Harvard and M.I.T. to sell their $620 million in the stocks of companies that do business in Israel. 300 Harvard professors sign a petition that urges President Summers to continue to invest in Israel. In October, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz accuses Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson, who signed the divestment petition, of anti-semitism and challenges him to a debate on the subject; Hanson declines and Dershowitz calls him a bigot in front of a group of 200 students in a Winthrop common room. President Summers calls the divestment plan “anti-Semitic...
Esteemed employee that he is, Hanson hopes to make the game stall, crash or buzz like a bad toaster. And, yes, he wreaks this havoc for a living, working as many as seven days a week in a Chicago-area office the size of a strip mall...
Video-game abuse has become a career these days, a crucial part of the $11 billion video-game industry. Hanson is a quality-assurance tester, who plays through every conceivable video-game scenario, looking for bugs, or problems, in a program before they hit the real world. Testers report glitches--a character walking offscreen, for example--to their company's programming department, which repairs the game's computer code. Then the game goes back to the testing department for further scrutiny, and the cycle repeats, often for months, until the game is bug free. "Testers are a special breed," says...
...Incredible Technologies, Hanson and his colleagues toil away in a dimly lighted room with charcoal gray carpeting, messing with the latest version of Golden Tee, due in 500 locales in November. Each tester has a code-melting specialty--simulating a drunken frat boy, for example--but all suggest that talent goes only so far when they're breaking games until sunrise. Admits Hanson: "You're just doing the same redundant thing, over and over again." Sounds par for the course...