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This week geeks and jocks alike can rejoice as two of the biggest video games of the year, Sega's NFL 2K3, above left, and Madden NFL Football 2003, above right, go head to head for the hearts and thumbs of armchair quarterbacks everywhere. As connoisseurs know, the matchup between the two faux football titles is one of the greatest rivalries in video-game history. Which to choose? Both games feature bruisingly realistic graphics and obsessively detailed playbooks. (Safety Bait? Strong Y Flood? You make the call!) Both have player drafts, combines, trading deadlines and mini-camps for those...
...Newark, we say. Sure it is, they’ve been improving port security ever since Sept. 11. All right, fine, well, how hard would it be for me to load a van up with fertilizer and set it off halfway across the bridge? We banter with the same armchair quarterback’s sense of authority and expertise that we later apply to more traditional questions, like “Which Major Leaguers Are On Steroids,” “What Happens In The Next Season of the Sopranos” and “Which Celebrity...
...White House, where Bush, aides claim, isn't interested in placing blame. "The President is focused on how we prevent a future attack," says communications director Dan Bartlett. "Armchair quarterbacking won't undo history." He and others add that Mueller became FBI chief just a week before the hit. But keeping calm on the sidelines serves another presidential purpose. Ever since it leaked that Bush had been briefed in August on the possibility that al-Qaeda might employ hijacking to advance its terrorist aims, the White House has carefully tried to insulate the President from suggestions that...
Perched on an overstuffed armchair that looks like it might swallow her whole, Shields is talking about Reta Winters, the heroine of her new novel, Unless, but she isn't being cruel--or if she is, it's because life itself is cruel. Shields needed something terrible to happen to Reta because something terrible was happening to her. Shields, 66, is dying of breast cancer, and Unless will be her last word...
...hort.net Just browsing? Armchair gardeners will get an eyeful--and a quick course in Latin plant names--by clicking through the lush photos collected at this site. More than 2,600 varieties of plants, trees and flowers are beautifully displayed. You just might be inspired to pick up a spade and start a garden of your...