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...violence, Vice City doesn't pull any punches--but why should it? Studies show the average American gamer is well into his 20s--old enough to have Wang Chunged before--yet while his tastes have matured, video games haven't been allowed to grow up with him. "There has been a demographic shift in who's playing," Donovan argues. "You're telling a 25-year-old that he's supposed to play with a hedgehog...
Wellstone had been locked in a tight re-election campaign against Republican challenger Norm Coleman and had begun to pull away in recent weeks, in part because this year's chapter in the Iraq saga provided Wellstone with an opportunity to remind Minnesotans that his maverick streak remained as sharp as ever. As the only vulnerable incumbent to vote against the resolution that would give President Bush war powers, Wellstone told the Senate, "Acting now on our own might be a sign of our power, but acting sensibly and in a measured way in concert with our allies.. would...
...wasn't scared of a fight, but he also wasn't scared of a friend," says conservative Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas. After heated debates with John McCain on the Senate floor, Wellstone, a former college wrestler who still holds the Capitol Police gym record for pushups and pull-ups, would grab McCain in the cloakroom in a mock wrestling hold. And when one of his amendments was inevitably defeated by a lopsided vote, Wellstone would walk over to the opposing Senator who had defeated him, slap him on the back and joke, "You were lucky this time...
...reactions of each character to the violence unfolding around them as a mirror that reflects the clashing attitudes Indians hold toward one another. Her attention to detail is one of her great strengths, and the film skillfully captures the characters' idiosyncrasies. In the end-like India itself-they pull through together, despite their differences. Yet Sen, who is Hindu, remains haunted by the real-world horrors she sees in today's India. "Scenes of communal hatred are not usually allowed in the movies," she says. "If you do portray it, then you are required to balance it out. And that...
...hats and bags that carry the artist's iconic images. "Warhol is a universal language," Treacy says. "We've gone for the most obvious choices first." Picture a hat with Marilyn Monroe's face hanging above the wearer's; a Campbell's soup can purse, with a silver-spoon pull on the zipper; a dollar-bill visor. Of course, some of Warhol's famous images are simply too ghoulish for headdress...