Unmasked, Spartan: Total Warrior, Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix, Mario Party 7, WWE Day of Reckoning, Super Mario Strikers, Nintendo Penant Chase Baseball, Midway Arcade Treasures 3, Harvest Moon, Shadow the Hedgehog, Mario Baseball, Medal of Honor: European Assault, and The Legend of Zelda: The Dark Princess.

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Though Jesse Jackson got to speak a lot, he And Mario, the party's Pavarotti, Got nonprime slots to call out all their tropes-- Competing with not Seinfeld but the soaps.

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In 1975, Portugal held its first free elections for 50 years, the Socialist Party under Mario Soares won most seats.

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Now it makes Zelda, Mario, a host of other first party franchises and hardware.

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So an ostensibly non-party government like that of Mario Monti is technocratic only up to a point.

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Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti says he is not siding for now with any party in upcoming elections, but remains available to head a future government.

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He admitted as much to his party last September, when he cited the dictum of Mario Cuomo that you campaign in poetry but govern in prose.

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If Berlusconi's party had withdrawn its support for Monti's government before ECB president Mario Draghi promised in late July to "do whatever it takes" to save the eurozone, Italian yields would have already risen sharply.

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Nintendo's own games for the system--particularly the outstanding Mario 64--were successful enough to initially drive sales of the machine, but later offerings from third-party developers have proved disappointing.

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