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...even Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's legendary creative director and gaming deity?Miyamoto created Mario and Zelda?has been able to break the slump. Miyamoto's latest attempt to launch a revolutionary franchise was a bizarre entry called Pikmin, in which users play an astronaut stranded on a remote planet who must enlist the aid of the local aliens (who look like ambulatory onion sprouts) to rebuild his ship?all set to a country-and-western music soundtrack. Pikmin failed to take off, forcing Nintendo to rely heavily on recycled fare such as Donkey Kong, Zelda, and Pikachu...
...French citizen as well as an American one, have I encountered a system of higher education as inefficient, chaotic, perversely bureaucratic and dysfunctional as the French. An American professor in the French system feels as if he has landed not merely in another nation, but on another planet. For the very idea of a student-centered higher-education system, where every infrastructural nuance - from faculty offices to student housing to decent salaries to ample classrooms - is designed to facilitate both teaching and research, is as foreign to most French universities as a slice of foie gras is to a Weight...
...bills. (Burton grew up in Burbank, Calif.--not a notoriously difficult place to heat a home.) The second Burton myth is that his mind is still trapped in the eremitic universe of that darkened bedroom. Evidence includes his lavish re-creations of '60s pop trifles (Batman, Mars Attacks! and Planet of the Apes) as well as more personal films (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood) that center on misunderstood emotional savants with a likeness to a certain director...
Crowe is an athletic reincarnation of the great Richard Burton, except that Crowe doesn't have to get drunk to behave obnoxiously. Nonetheless, he is today (as Burton once was) the finest actor on the planet. ANTHONY F. PROVENZANO Bronxville...
...probably the least dangerous person on the planet." BARRY LEVINE, attorney for John Hinckley Jr., arguing why Hinckley, who has lived in a psychiatric hospital since attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, should be allowed unsupervised visits with his parents...