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Last Friday, the president of Hasbro??s U.S. branch said that the company will sue Chang unless he immediately stops selling he game. “We want to make it clear that Hasbro has absolutely no connection to the reprehensible ‘Ghettopoly game,’” Bifulco said...

Author: By Shanshan Jiang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Board Game Decried as Racist | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

...addition, the jacket design is of singularly dubious merit. In an attempt to avoid portraying actual Transformers and earn the wrath of Hasbro??s legal department, _Eugenesis_ instead features a black and white photo of junked automobiles on the cover; part of a faux Penguin Classics design for the entire book (closer inspection reveals the publisher to be “Polyhex Classics,” a Transformers reference, naturally). With these wrappings, the book could easily mingle unnoticed alongside _Middlemarch_ and _The Canterbury Tales_. Whether it deserves such illustrious company is somewhat questionable. Like...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eugenesis Transforms a Childhood Classic | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

...making the dolls as lifelike as possible, but the real threat that hundreds of thousands of American soldiers faced from chemical and biological weapons in the first Gulf War—and will face in the Second Gulf War—seems to be outside the scope of Hasbro??s realism. Unfortunately, this reflects a larger problem: Americans don’t fully appreciate the danger posed by these weapons, and even when they sense the danger, they don’t understand its imminence...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Toying with Terrorists | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

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