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Shigeru Miyamoto is revered among video gamers for creating a legion of adventures filled with goofy heroes like Mario and Luigi. Among co-workers, though, Miyamoto is equally well known for his cartoonishly hot temper. Early last year, when Nintendo engineers had trouble executing his vision for a new kind of game that involved stepping on a scale and weighing yourself, they learned firsthand just how much like Bowser--Mario's fire-breathing archnemesis--Miyamoto could be. "I suffered the wrath of Miyamoto-san because we weren't coming up with enough ideas," developer Arisa Hosaka said in an online...
...Vice President to Temper The Age Issue McCain's campaign is resigned to the fact that late night comics are foaming at the prospect of six more months worth of Old Man McCain jokes. And polls show that the Republican's age - he will be 72 by Election Day - could have an impact at the ballot box. But both McCain and his advisers have been pointing to a prospect they hope will neutralize the issue: a relatively youthful vice president, who might lesson the fear of, gulp, McCain's death in office. "I'm aware of enhanced importance of this...
...lately, in her own way, Clinton has been reveling in the nation's economic downturn, and the recent struggles of Barack Obama. But the election results Tuesday night may give others doubt about her clear convictions. At the very least, they are likely to temper the crucial support of uncommitted superdelegates, who are crucial to keeping alive her slim hopes of winning the presidential nomination...
...prayer rooms, veneration of horses and participation in sports such as javelin throwing, all predate the quasi-Shi'ite form of Islam they later adopted (Alevi means "follower of Ali," the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad venerated in Shi'ism). They say the Koran is open to interpretation, and temper its teachings with such Alevi dictums as "control your hand, your groin and your tongue...
...bubble of congeniality between two countries that are still technically at war - one that abruptly burst on March 24, when North Korean authorities ordered 11 South Korean government officers stationed at Kaesong to leave the country. The incident was only the start of a North Korean temper tantrum that has plunged North-South relations to their lowest point in a decade. On March 28, North Korea test-fired a barrage of missiles into the sea and warned it would "mercilessly wipe out" any South Korean vessels that violated its territorial waters. Two days later, a military official threatened to turn...