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...part of the weekly Berkman Luncheon Series. Obama used his fundraising advantage over Republican candidate John McCain to buy advertisements in online video games, including the racing game “Burnout Paradise” and role-playing game Second Life. Republican presidential candidate John McCain also had an avatar on Second Life, but Obama supporters playing Second Life painted virtual graffiti and virtually double-parked in front of McCain’s virtual apartment, according to Hillygus. Such advertising was less effective for McCain because his constituency was less likely to play video games, she said...
...moderate waters. He has since made a name (and Fundamentalist foes) combating global warming, championing comprehensive immigration reform and extolling a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Less ambiguously than any other leader (including Purpose-Driven Life author Rick Warren, who hedges more bets), Hunter is the avatar of the New Evangelicalism, which is increasingly contesting the priorities of classic religious-right figures like James Dobson. Given all this, it was not surprising that Hunter delivered the closing benediction at the Democratic Convention in August, or that he was asked to join Tuesday's prayer circle...
...sold-out concerts in London last year, it's actually a lush myth-making exercise. Prince consorts with sexy twins, wears fabulous coats, jewelry and sunglasses and has a game of cat and mouse with a maid. He reveals nothing, offering instead a fantasy creature: a nocturnal, poetic avatar. Is the book an attempt to get people to pay $50 for the companion CD of Princely after-hours recordings, Indigo Nights, or to elevate music to a new luxury item? As Prince might say, that...
...massive best seller. A few floors up, another writer, Philip, a Pulitzer winner who has fallen on hard times (he's at work on a screenplay titled--in a nod to Waugh--Bridesmaids Revisited), is sleeping with his 22-year-old gold-digging assistant, Lola, a viciously, flawlessly drawn avatar of the rising generation of postfeminist girl-women. But Philip still yearns for an old flame: Schiffer, an Oscar-winning actress whose new TV show is turning out to be a smash hit. Among these characters moves gentle, sophisticated, thwarted Billy Litchfield, a kind of freelance Guy Friday to rich...
...childhood where his mother drags him in to see a psychiatrist, convinced that her son is suffering from depression because he’s stopped doing his homework. A nebbishy but precocious nine year-old, his face dwarfed by the trademark horn-rimmed glasses, kid Woody is a charming avatar of his neurotic, anhedonic adult persona. “The universe is everything,” he says by means of justification. “And if it’s expanding, someday it will break apart—and that would be the end of everything...