Word: tetsuya
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...just loved it." He persuaded his newspaper to start publishing the game last month and just held KenKen's first U.S. competition at the annual American Crossword Puzzle tournament, in New York City, which drew more than 900 people from around the world - including KenKen's creator, Tetsuya Miyamoto. (Read an interview with Shortz...
...clever way to teach math to kids (the name means "cleverness squared" in Japanese). Shortz held the first U.S. KenKen tournament this weekend at the 32nd annual American Crosswords Puzzle tournament in Brooklyn, which drew more than 900 people from across the world - including KenKen's creator, Tetsuya Miyamoto, who flew in from Tokyo for the occasion. TIME spoke with Shortz about his loyal (if occasionally creepy) fan base, his addiction to KenKen, the golden age of puzzles and the See Ready, Set, Solve: A Crossword Puzzle Showdown...
...foodies able to lay down $5,000 a head for a round of tastebud-zapping dishes by Thomas Keller (the French Laundry in Napa Valley and Per Se in New York City), Heston Blumenthal (The Fat Duck in Berkshire, England), Ferran Adria (El Bulli, outside Barcelona) and Tetsuya Wakuda (Tetsuya's in Sydney). And by coming to Chicago, they paid tribute to the city's transformation from a steak-and-potatoes no-man's land into a world-class "hot spot for haute cuisine," as Adria observed over the weekend...
...Tetsuya Shiroo woke up that morning and got himself a gun. Before the day was over, he allegedly used it to murder Iccho Itoh, the mayor of the southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki, outside his campaign office. While the April 17 shooting first appeared to be an assassination, it soon emerged that Shiroo, a 59-year-old yakuza (gangster) with ties to Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest criminal syndicate, seemed motivated less by politics than by a petty personal grievance. He blamed a minor car accident on city construction work and wanted $17,000 in damages from the Nagasaki government...
...Police apprehended Itoh's attacker moments after the shooting. They've identified him as Tetsuya Shiroo, 59, and said he was a senior member of a gang affiliated with Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's biggest yakuza criminal syndicate. Police say Shiroo admitted to the shooting upon his arrest. His motive remains unclear: local media are reporting that Shiroo had a personal grudge against the mayor and his local government, but at least one anti-nuclear activist wondered whether there might be a political motive...