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...event offered free food and over four hundred dollars worth of prizes, including a Nintendo Wii. It featured tournaments in four games selected by an informal popularity poll: “Super Smash Brothers Melee,” “Halo,” “Starcraft: Brood War,” and “Warcraft: Defense of the Ancients.” Other games were available for casual play. Prizes were awarded to winners of each of the official tournaments. The Nintendo Wii was awarded in a raffle, for which all participants received tickets according...
...Japanese Lessons Your coverage of Asia's endangered environment was very timely and relevant [Oct. 9]. Many regions of India are afflicted with contagious fevers like dengue. Hospitals are overflowing, and there is a shortage of proper medicines. It is very obvious that these diseases are the brood of environmental disaster in India. I see waste from factories dumped on the side of public roads. Authorities are corrupt and close their eyes to these illegal activities. There are no public toilets, people litter, and there is no proper management in the cities and villages to remove garbage. India...
Denis, 38, her husband and their brood of nine will expand into a larger residence. Now 450 crates are sealed and only 50 more wait to be filled with toys and clothes and kitchenware and books and photos and the other flotsam of family life. The woman deserves a medal. That's exactly the conclusion the French authorities reached earlier this year. In May, Denis traveled from her home in St.-Germain-en-Laye, an affluent Parisian commuter town, to the capital. There, in the Salle des Fêtes of the Elysées Palace, French President Jacques Chirac...
...within 24 hours of Suri's official portraits appearing on the Web Sept. 5, online discussions were already in full swing on the baby's exceptionally furry pate and blue eyes. Paparazzi still stalk Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's multi-cultural brood, even though the couple sold photos of their infant daughter, Shiloh, to People magazine last spring in a bid to raise money for charity while deflecting unwanted cameras. Britney Spears and Kevin Federline cuddled up to newborn Sean Preston on the cover of People last fall. Within months photographers so harassed Spears that she was caught...
...even as her brood expanded, Andrea was busy caring for her father, who had Alzheimer's and had never fully recovered from a heart attack a decade earlier. During the holidays, with her kids in tow, Andrea usually took charge, dishing up plates of food for relatives even as her own meal went cold. It was always Andrea who visited; she rarely allowed relatives to visit her, even though they lived just 30 minutes away. "We got as close as they would let you," says her brother Andrew Kennedy. "They were very private." Some thought she was embarrassed...