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...classics, is one of video-gaming's most storied cheats. During development of the 1985 Konami arcade game Gradius, a programmer found the game to be too difficult and programmed in a key sequence - up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A - that, if entered, gave the player a set of the game's power-ups. As word of the shortcut spread, other programmers aped his cheat, working the same sequence into their own games. The Konami code works in nearly 100 video games now, including Frogger and Dance Dance Revolution. (See the 50 best websites...
...pretty sure from the beginning that we would play really well,” Snyder said. “We are really deep this year as I’ve never seen before in my four years as a player. We have a really good atmosphere that keeps up the motivation. I know that we can dominate this season...
...pressure from Cornell continued as rookie Zeke Scherl fell at the No. 3 slot again, giving the Big Red a one-game lead, but No. 9 Alexander Ma came from behind to even back the score. Co-captain Colin West, Harvard’s top player who has yet to lose a game this season, picked off Alex Domenick to give the Crimson a shaky 4-3 lead...
...Jason’s opponent was a very tough player, very talented, great racquet work, but Jason stuck to his game,” Hill said. “He basically refused to give up. He fought for every point, and he came up with that victory...
Montana Senator Max Baucus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a key player in health-care reform, has been involved with his share of feisty women. His second wife Wanda Minge was arrested in 2004 for fighting with a woman at a suburban Virginia garden store. (Minge was reportedly upset that she was not being helped by the staff at a garden supplies shop with loading mulch on to her car; the charges were eventually lowered to misdemeanor assault and a plea deal avoided prosecution.) The 2007 holiday season was the last time in their quarter-century...