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...from the TV screen. There's a strong whiff of voodoo about it. If you want your character on the screen to swing a sword, you just swing the controller. If you want to aim your gun, you just aim the wand and pull the trigger...
...painful microbomb implanted in his brain--that explains a lot about the star's shenanigans this past year. And at the end, his team jumps up and down in evocation of Cruise's stunt on Oprah. Is celebrity a mask we love to see the star pull off, grinning at his own foibles? Ponder and deplore...
Luria's innovation is to think of Dine Originals as one big chain--taken together, the 700 restaurants pull in about $1.4 billion in annual sales and represent $450 million in purchasing power--so its members get the clout and volume prices previously reserved for the big boys. Last month Luria signed a contract with Avendra, the top U.S. group-purchasing company in the restaurant-and-hotel sector, to get members lower prices on food and supply contracts as well as consulting advice on how to run their businesses more efficiently. The help may not reverse the chain-restaurant juggernaut...
...moves. Venezuela's oil industry was nationalized 30 years ago, but last month Chavez himself put the screws on foreign oil and gas firms operating in Venezuela by raising their taxes and royalties and forcing them to concede majority stakes in their projects to the government. Few plan to pull out of Venezuela, however, given the record profits they're earning there. And with crude prices at astronomical levels, Chavez has used his petro-largesse - including programs to provide cash-strapped neighbors with cheaper access to Venezuelan oil and to build continent-wide pipelines for oil and natural...
...walks, while striking out 29 batters. That amounts to a league ERA of only 0.73, and his overall ERA of 3.48 ranks fourth in the Ivies, but much of that was compiled against powerful non-conference sqauds like Florida and Boston College. Last weekend, Haviland helped the Crimson pull out a key win against Dartmouth by throwing ten innings of one-run ball. Against Princeton earlier this year, Haviland shut down the Tigers, allowing only one run over seven innings.“Haviland has been unbelievable this year,” senior captain Morgan Brown said...