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Beer Pong is a virtual rendition of the popular college drinking game that requires players to toss Ping-Pong balls across a table and into a cup of beer (if your cup is hit, you drink). The game was designed for the popular Nintendo Wii platform, and its maker had planned to release it as the first game in its new Frat Party Games series. But concerned parents began sending angry letters to JV Games and Nintendo - Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal even got in on the action, sending his own missives to the companies - until JV Games agreed...
...Prize-winning Irishman contains testimony from, and about, people guilty of a long list of particulars, most particularly being born. They solemnly declare all crimes of commission and omission, which Beckett sets down in crystalline phrases that might be spoken from the witness stand, or from the hangman's platform just before execution...
...series of images. I remember filing to the front of the train and thinking how it felt like leaving the bus on a school trip. I remember putting my hand on the shoulder of the driver and saying "I'm sorry" as he gesticulated frantically at two platform colleagues. I remember glancing down under the driver's carriage and telling my girlfriend not to look, and noticing how reassuring the warm bodies of the passengers felt as we crowded into a packed elevator to leave the station. I remember a blur of fire trucks and ambulances (how did they...
...media. Like Malone, Smith views the Paramount fight as a side issue. He envisions the new Bell Atlantic more as a toll taker on the electronic highway than as a provider of entertainment and information. ''What we're looking for are arrangements with programmers to use our platform,'' says Smith. His ''platform'' is basically the highway itself, which will generate revenues for Bell Atlantic in the form of subscriber fees. Thus Paramount, a classic provider of such programming, is really not critical to this new venture, and Smith says Bell Atlantic has no intention of entering the fray. For their...
...many, bullfighting remains a powerful sign of identity. "It's part of our social genome," says Luis Corrales, president of the Platform for Defense of the Bullfight. "It gives us a sense of who we are as a people." That may be changing - one poll puts the proportion of Spaniards opposed to bullfighting at 80% - and animal rights proponents here like to point out that just because something is traditional doesn't make it right. Still, activists on both side of the bullfighting fence agree that, at least for now, a law banning bullfighting is unthinkable...