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...executioner's blade and is sold into a troupe of gladiators, including the African Juba (Djimon Hounsou). Their job is to fight and die, and their Vince McMahon is the wily Proximo (Oliver Reed). Act II of Gladiator is a backstage show-biz story, the one about the old pro who makes a comeback in a new role. Maximus' battleground is now the arena; instead of barbarians, his opponents are hungry tigers. Proximo tells Maximus he must make the crowd love him. If he does, he'll go out there as Tiger Chow but come back a star...
Fortunately, kids who are jonesing for action and strategizing have lots of terrific games to chose from that don't involve splattering body parts--for example, Donkey Kong 64 ($59.99 from Nintendo) or Crash Team Racing ($39.99 from Sony). According to Francis Mao, vice president of Game Pro Magazine, Chu Chu Rocket ($29.99 from Sega) has even the Quake fanatics at the magazine hooked. Here at TIME, we're digging the new Shogun: Total War ($39.95 from Electronic Arts), which is more about strategy than swordfighting. As always, a family should keep its PC and gaming console in a public...
...reformists the fruits of their convincing February election win. Iranians went to the polls Friday in 66 constituencies for runoff votes after they'd failed to produce clear victors in the first round, amid signs of a furious conservative backlash. Since February, the conservative judiciary has closed down the pro-reform press, imprisoning a number of journalists and other prominent liberals. The Council of Guardians has also dragged its feet on ratifying the reformist win in 30 Tehran constituencies, while the conservative judiciary has also sought to embarrass Khatami's efforts to repair relations with the West by charging...
...pro-reform newspapers have really been the most important single organizing vehicle of the reform movement. It's given voice to the challenge to the conservative clergy's grip on power, and in recent years has become increasingly bold in its willingness to discuss topics previously off-limits...
Long before closing time, the Mix Master ceded his set to a freestyle free-for-all that proved to be a second highlight. Canadian MC Choclair, blatantly pushing all things Toronto in his Raptors jersey, offered some quality pro-Canadian rhymes over Black Rob's "Like Whoa," and Rahzel continued to amaze, though his freestyle abilities are clearly an order of magnitude weaker than his skills as the human beat...