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Lifestyles
FRANK JOHNSON's Gaming Life column: It has been a heady week for the ol' video game biz as success and scandal have rocked gamers with equal furor.
ARTIST'S HOME: Artist's passion for nature evident in her home, work. PEORIA / in / home & garden
ART: several cool pics
CHRISTMAS RECIPES: Globe-trotting Santa offers favorite Christmas recipes. CLINTON, Mass. / in / food
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: Bound and stitched, books unlock adventure. CNC /in / entertainment
CLEANSING YOUR MUSICAL PALETTE: What will 2008 sound like? ROCKFORD / IN / entertainment
Opinions
BRITT TOON: On Mitt Romney and illegal aliens.
EDITORIAL: Omaha, Neb., mall shooting another senseless act of violence. Peoria.
WOOD ON WORDS: Barry Wood's weekly look at a word theme. This week: Ever wonder what a 'sugarplum' is? How about 'nog'?
FOR SUNDAY: Rob Meltzer: Al Gore's global vision - It is important for us to reflect on what the Nobel Committee might have been thinking when it nominated Al Gore for the peace prize, and I can only do so from my own personal feelings toward Al Gore.
MetroWest, on wire now
With Granlund illustration
MADDOCKS: Despite new finding on his intelligence Bush maintains his hard line against thinking - Defending his credibility, President Bush said yesterday that he had not reconsidered any of his policies or decisions and will continue to act "as if my brain isn't there" despite a blockbuster intelligence finding that the president's own intelligence had not
CNC, Maddocks, on wire now
FOR SUNDAY: Holmes: ON ROMNEY - What Romney left out of his speech on religion is as interesting as the platitudes he put in.
MetroWest, 6 p.m.
FOR SUNDAY: Editorial: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS - We can disagree over what to do about illegal immigrants, but we ought to agree that the backlog that is preventing thousands of legal immigrants from having their citizenship applications approved is inexcusable.
MetroWest, 6 p.m.
Sports
BULLPEN GOSPELS: Occasional column by minor league pitcher. CANTON
AROUND THE NFL: Weekly column by Steve Doerschuk. CANTON
FLAWLESS FARLEY: NFL picks.
MIKE NADEL: -For Sunday: Illinois vs. Ariz. hoops game
News
WILL YOU MARRY ME? AND ROB WITH ME? Well, weddings are expensive -- woman and fiance caught after robbing bank, police say. Chicago Suburban.
GETTING CARDED: The state's gambling regulators may vote early next year on a proposal that would require all casino customers to hand over their driver's licenses or state ID's for "scanning." The idea is being proposed as a way to eject problem gamblers who have signed up for the state's "self-exclusion" program. Casino operators say customers will balk at the new requirement, but anti-gambling advocates support the plan. RAMSEY / This evening / Illinois and Illinois News
BLACK WIDOW IN GRAPES - A Weston woman buys grapes at the Natick Stop & Shop, gets home and finds a black widow spider among them. We talk to grocery store
about this not-infrequent problem of poisonous hitchhikers.
MetroWest, Kelly, 15 inches, 6 p.m.
With image from Web
Opening of Nazi archive vault will shed light - In addition to helping survivors trace their families, the unsealing of the Nazi archives in Bad Arolsen for the public on Nov. 28 will enable detailed research in myriad areas of the Holocaust, such as the transport of prisoners, the camp populations, and the health of forced laborers.
MetroWest, Kelly, 20 inches, on wire now
With photo
Coming Monday (Monday is Biz)
WORKWISE: How large companies appeal to employees. MILDRED CULP / in / business
BIZ BITS: Weekly business rail, with items on kangaroos, lifelike toy parrots and the housing crisis.
GOING GREEN: Packaging company going green by changing gears. MESSENGER POST / in / business
A $600 stroller? UPPAbaby cashes in on upscale baby gear trend - After helping design Mustangs and Tauruses for Ford Motor Co., Bob Monahan has achieved more recent success with a different sort of four-wheeled icon: the UPPAbaby stroller.
Ledger, Adams, 18 inches, on wire now
With photos
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to rebrand itself - The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University plans to rebrand itself the ``Harvard Kennedy School'' in an effort to lessen confusion about its identity and better leverage the Harvard name.
Ledger, Colby, 18 inches, on wire now