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...Game for All Ages" [May 15] reported that Nintendo hopes its new game controller, which senses a player's hand movements, will appeal to girls and grandparents. As a female gamer who has been playing video games since the days of Pac-Man, I am always amused by game companies that feel the need to target female gamers. Not one of the games aimed at girls has appealed to me. You know what I want in a game? How about realistic female characters instead of bouncy, skinny, half-naked ones? I've given up playing female characters in any game...
Since his landslide election win in December, Bolivian President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, has turned South America's poorest nation into a hemispheric player. His recent nationalization of Bolivia's oil and natural-gas reserves has made him, along with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, a leader of a leftist surge in Latin American politics. It has also put Morales at odds with the U.S., which he is scheduled to visit in June. Morales, 46, talked with TIME's Tim Padgett and Jean Friedman-Rudovsky last week at the presidential palace in the Bolivian capital...
...CAMPUSLike many three-year-olds, Ethan Howell is a die-hard baseball fan. He knows all the names of Harvard’s varsity baseball players.But unlike most three-year-olds, Ethan is just as likely to see his idols at breakfast as at the ballpark.His favorite player is first baseman Josh Klimkiewicz ’06, who lives just a few blocks away in Leverett.Ethan’s mother, Adams House tutor Sharon L. Howell, says she’s happy to be raising her son on Harvard’s campus. “All the stuff...
...When George W. Bush shook up his White House staff a few weeks ago, the smart money in town took a decidedly blase attitude about it. Wake me, said a longtime Republican player, when they dump [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld and [Treasury Secretary John] Snow. Until then, he added, it's not a policy change of much significance...
...might fill the position? Robert Zoellick, the deputy secretary of state who has long dreamed of the Treasury job, is no longer thought likely to get it. Zoellick, a brilliant if sometimes brittle player who has about 20 IQ points on everyone else in Washington, may have assumed that he would get Treasury in exchange for backing up Condoleezza Rice at State for two years. But if there is no real chance to make economic policy in the Treasury slot, Zoellick probably doesn't belong there. A more likely candidate now is Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, a 53-year...