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Final Fantasy : ultimania archive
A detailed history of the newest games of the Final Fantasy saga includes original concept art, process pieces, and notes from designers.
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TAILGUNNER HELMS
Mr. [Ernest B. Furgurson] reports that in the 1950's Senator [Jesse Helms] complained about a '' 'severe restriction' placed on speakers at a certain Raleigh civic club - 'each speaker is advised in advance that he is not to tell a joke or anecdote which makes reference to a particular race or a particular religion. That's a mistake, I think.' '' In 1983, he led the opposition to legislation establishing a national holiday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Attacking King as a Communist fellow-traveler wasn't anything new for Senator Helms. Mr. Furgurson says that he had been attempting to tarnish King's reputation for more than 20 years. Even so, Mr. Furgurson reports that Senator Helms's Senate colleagues were appalled by his tactics and rhetoric in waging his losing fight against the establishment of the holiday. When Senator Helms placed a copy of J. Edgar Hoover's 350-page file of F.B.I. documents about King on the desk of each Senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York described the material as ''trash'' and tossed it on the floor. MR. FURGURSON suggests that Senator Helms, who had started off his political life as a Democrat, welcomed such criticism by Northern liberals and that his campaign against King was launched to boost his re-election chances against a formidable Democratic challenger. And, according to Mr. Furgurson, the strategy worked. Following the King controversy, he received an instant lift in local public-opinion polls. Senator Helms also capitalized on Jesse Jackson's active opposition to his candidacy, mentioning Mr. Jackson's name 24 times in a single fund-raising letter.
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Grimmiss Island
When the Volcano Goddess threatens the Mama Woogees' tiny island, only little Grimmiss can save the day!
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LUCK THAT SEEMS LIKE TORTURE
Calcutta was built for exploitation, but for farily benevolent exploitation, not virulent as it is now. ''If it was possible to steal the air we breathe, there'd be people in Calcutta prepared to do it,'' one character says, quoting Ram Chander. He is a wise and generous rickshaw puller, one of the innumerable lesser characters of ''The City of Joy,'' [Dominique Lapierre]'s new book in the nonfiction historical genre he and Larry Collis, used in such popular successes as ''Is Paris Burning?'' about the liberation of Paris and ''Freedom at Midnight,'' about the partition of India. Meanwhile, [Stephan Kovalski] had chosen to live in the City of Joy, its only white man, sharing its life even to the extent of nearly dying of the chief epidemic, cholera. It was his poor neighbors who rescued him, and even then he refused to go to any but the poorest Indian hospital. How deep was his affinity with the city is shown when, in the bewilderment of his first morning there, trying to make his usual morning ritual, he could not remember the prayers and psalms but found himself reciting ''Om,'' which, in Indian religions, is the most powerful and spiritual of all sounds. ''OM... Jesus, om... Jesus'' and, ''after a moment, I was once more in His presence,'' he said. Dominique Lapierre, a former journalist with Paris-Match, is best known for his writing partnerhsip with Larry Collins, a former journalist with Newsweek. They first met when Mr. Lapierre served as an interpreter with Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe, after World War II. There followed such international best sellers in fact-and-thriller documentary style as ''Is Paris Burning?'' ''Freedom at Midnight'' and ''The Fifth Horseman.'' The success of the books liberated the authors form journalistic deadlines and enabled them to become neighbors in the south of France. This time, Mr. Lapierre is on his own.
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