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...twin attacks sparked an unprecedented public outcry, led by ordinary Sicilian women who hung white sheets from their balcony railings bearing a single word: basta (enough). Strolling the colorful streets of Palermo today, one sees a new outbreak of draped sheets that simply read: rita for president. The message driving the challenger's campaign couldn't be clearer. "We need to break with the past," Borsellino told Time. "We have a system based on pure political patronage that makes people think they have to go ask 'Please' for something that should be their right." She believes there is a fundamental...
MEMORIAL The sunken memorial, called Reflecting Absence, will echo the footprints of the twin towers and will contain a museum dedicated to the events of 9/11. It is scheduled for completion in 2011 Subway transit center Underground Concourse...
...been asking himself, and his employees, that question for the past five years. And what Iwata has noticed is something that most gamers have long ago forgotten: to nongamers, video games are really hard. Like hard as in homework. The standard video-game controller is a kind of Siamese-twin affair, two joysticks fused together and studded with buttons, two triggers and a four-way toggle switch called a d-pad. In a game like Halo, players have to manipulate both joysticks simultaneously while working both triggers and pounding half a dozen buttons at the same time. The learning curve...
...remove my jacket. That turns out to be a good idea. The first game I try--Miyamoto walks me through it, which to a gamer is the rough equivalent of getting to trade bons mots with Jerry Seinfeld--is a Warioware title (Wario being Mario's shorter, fatter evil twin). It consists of dozens of manic five-second mini games in a row. They're geared to the Japanese gaming sensibility, which has a zany, cartoonish, game-show bent. In one hot minute, I use the controller to swat a fly, do squat-thrusts as a weight lifter, turn...
Steady, unremarkable success was lacking from the program. Injury and inconsistency, the twin horns of seasons gone awry, killed momentum where there would be plenty...