Word: resurrection
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...best-selling video games of 2004, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, lets players control a character called CJ, who has just returned home to the fictional town of Los Santos to avenge his mother's murder and resurrect his once powerful street gang. To make money, CJ robs people, which often involves punching and kicking his victims until they are lying dead in a pool of blood. To cruise around town, he steals cars and mows down pedestrians who get in his way. And to keep his spirits from flagging amid all the mayhem, he can hire a prostitute...
Another election so soon? As Democrats ponder what direction their party should take in the wake of yet another presidential defeat, the choice of a new chairman of the Democratic National Committee could be the skirmish that reveals whether the party will try to resurrect itself by turning to the center or by stoking the anti-Bush anger of its left. Two leading contenders are emerging. Howard Dean is being urged to run by liberal activists convinced he is the best chance for channeling the base's ire into a national message. But the more centrist group believes that Dean...
...loves ya, Ving baby? The next generation of Kojak fans, if the USA network has any say. Starting in March, Pulp Fiction's VING RHAMES will resurrect the role of the dapper detective played by TELLY SAVALAS. Rhames, 43, says he never watched the '70s show. "Growing up in Harlem, running into the house to see a bald white guy arrest black people didn't interest me," Rhames says. "I was running in to watch Good Times." Rhames' Kojak will be "edgier, a Prince of the City type," he says. Yet he'll retain the character's trademarks: expect chrome...
...second set of bongos at $30. That’s a hefty price tag, so I can’t recommend Donkey Konga beyond those who are already into DDR-style games or those who want to get into them. But for those millions, Konga will resurrect the glorious days when Power Pad was king...
...they’re touring in support of another evolutionary album. On this year’s A Ghost Is Born, Wilco flaunts their range of abilities. While some songs, such as “Wishful Thinking,” resurrect a gentle acoustic aesthetic, others, like “Spiders (Kidsmoke),” expose new layers of Wilco’s now larger instrumental base, showing off the talents of the band’s newest member, electronic specialist Mikael Jorgensen. Both songs comprised the heart of Wilco’s main set, which stuck mainly...