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...lettered in it last year," claims Ryan A. Riess '99, one of 15 devoted FIFA players. The men, all seniors in Pforzheimer House, spend at least two hours every day playing Nintendo 64. Though World Cup Soccer is the game of choice," You have to see Mario Kart to get the real essence of what's going on," claims Jason D. Lalli...

Author: By Nia C. Stephens, | Title: junkies | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...addition to FIFA and Mario Kart, they also play Mortal Kombat and Goldeneye. Lalli criticized the latter game, however, saying," It's not fun, it's just killing people." Burak H. Alsan '99 retorts, "Not like Mortal Kombat?" The verbal contests were nearly as competitive as the action on the screen...

Author: By Nia C. Stephens, | Title: junkies | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...breaks for lunch and dinner, for example. Several are involved in long-term romantic relationships, though one was discovered by his gown-clad girlfriend just five minutes before the Radcliffe Senior Soiree. He was still in his jeans, his gaze locked on the screen during an intense game of Mario Kart. Although he lost that game, their relationship somehow survived. Perhaps women just can't resist them--Anna M. Harr '99 claims that "Nintendo boys are the sexiest boys in the world...

Author: By Nia C. Stephens, | Title: junkies | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...think motorcycles are Japan's revenge for the atom bomb. Since 1945, bikes have killed or maimed more Americans than Japanese were killed at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. MARIO G. SEMERE Los Angeles

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 14, 1998 | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...Mario Vargas Llosa the politician ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru in 1990 as a fiscal conservative. Happily, Vargas Llosa the winning novelist remains a staunch romantic libertarian. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 260 pages; $23) is, like his delectable Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977; translated into English in 1982), a roguish and sophisticated sex comedy with a few brain teasers tipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life, Liberty and Lustiness | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

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