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Feirstein is not the only Hollywood type who has seen the light. If anything, he's a little late. Video games overtook movies in the annual revenue race in 1999. But that was an apples-to-oranges contest. The average game costs up to five times as much as a movie ticket. And back then a console title was a movie afterthought, a more expensive Burger King toy. Now, with original blockbuster fare like Everything or Nothing, released in February, the titans of the $21 billion games business have shown their Hollywood cousins (a puny $9.2 billion biz) they...
...small enough to hold a wedding ring or large enough for jet skis (4 ft. by 4 ft. by 4 ft. is the maximum, however). The U.S. leads the world in box manufacturing, accounting for more than one-quarter of all production. China last year overtook Japan for second place...
...been so long since we have had an old-fashioned confirmation bloodletting, you could almost forget the foul mood that overtook the U.S. during the fights over Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Washington was so shell-shocked by the Thomas battle that people were intent on turning the next Supreme Court vacancy, in 1994, into a milder affair. And Stephen Breyer's confirmation process proved to be a breeze...
...Syracuse’s second varsity boats following in 6:25.8 and 6:31.8, respectively. In the varsity four ‘A’ boat, Radcliffe won in 7:09.8. Dartmouth followed in 7:18.5 and Syracuse lagged behind in 7:31.5. The Black and White overtook Dartmouth in the varsity four ‘B’ race as well, winning...
...Ferrarone Team Race Trophy at Yale, met with less success than its co-ed counterparts, finishing 4-6 on the weekend and in ninth place overall. Many of the team’s losses came off poor starts. In the races the team started well, it overtook close competitors such as host Yale, Boston University and Salve Regina...