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...father of modern video gaming, he created iconic characters like Mario and Donkey Kong. His latest big hit is the Nintendo Wii game system. Shigeru Miyamoto will now take your questions...
What is your opinion on our latest immigration woes along the border? -Mario Quintero in Indio, Calif.You can't lump everything into one piece of legislation, I don't think. I think we are a country of immigrants and I see hardworking people every day who come here and I believe it to be our greatest asset. So you better not be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Just look at who is driving cabs and who is in the kitchens. It is the latest people who got here, you know? It's the entry-level jobs...
...famously did not defeat Harry Truman. And then the parade of New York presidential candidates stopped. A number of ambitious New York politicians looked like presidential timber, but Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Representative Jack Kemp failed to win their parties' nominations; Governor Mario Cuomo never declared his candidacy. Colin Powell was a flash in the pan; Donald Trump was a flash in his own brainpan. No New Yorker has headed a presidential ticket in almost 60 years --the longest New York drought in American history...
...fighting extradition to Peru. Lima wants Fujimori to stand trial on charges including corruption and sanctioning death squads during his decade-long reign as president. The son of Japanese immigrants to Peru, Fujimori was an obscure agricultural engineer before he won the presidency in 1990, upsetting the popular novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. As president he was as loved for rescuing Peru's economy from near collapse and ending a violent Maoist insurgency as he was hated for trampling democracy and humans rights...
...people she left behind, and that's the Princes, William and Harry." Iconic pictures of her are still worth a tidy sum for those photographers lucky enough to have taken them, whether they?re grainy paparazzi snaps of Diana on holiday or intimate portraits like those shot by Mario Testino for Vanity Fair five months before she died. Every year around this time, he says, Testino is inundated with requests for his photos of a smiling, serene Diana. "The pictures were important to me from the very beginning because she was a magical person," he says...