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...Katamari (a sticky ball) around a landscape filled with household objects. At first, the Katamari can pick up only thumbtacks and other small items. But the larger it gets, the more it can pick up, until eventually you've got a ridiculous giant ball of junk that can successfully spear skyscrapers. This is the game that the phrase "fun for kids of all ages" was made for--and it doesn't hurt that, at $19.88, it's less than half the price of a regular video game...
...wasn’t nearly precise enough. Instead of finding a maroon jersey, it was again Tracy who flew through the crowd to spear his second interception of the game. He darted through the stunned offensive linemen and down to the Leopards’ 36-yard line. The Crimson capped the ensuing drive with a field goal and a 38-23 lead that held for the remainder of the game...
...DIED. WILTON MKWAYI, 81, antiapartheid fighter who served more than 20 years of a life sentence with Nelson Mandela in prison on Robben Island; in King Williams Town, South Africa. Mkwayi helped found an armed-resistance movement called Spear of the Nation in the 1950s. Convicted of treason in 1964, he was released as the apartheid system was being dismantled...
...reef fish haven't been biting, the dorys (the "tinny" fishing boats attached to trawlers) returning empty. One of the crew, David Rhodes, recognizes photographer Russell Shakespeare from a previous encounter. "I'll tell you a story," says Rhodes upon meeting Time's reporter. "Two Murray Islanders put a spear to my throat and stole all my fish. I was fishing 14 nautical mi. from their island." Sea rights is a hot issue in the Torres Strait following landmark native-title decisions in the 1990s; a whiff of secession talk intermittently sweeps through Islander communities, which have been known...
...Bosco will be the proverbial tip of the spear, carrying out the policies he has so vocally supported in a world that has become increasingly dangerous...