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...joys of the franchise's Next Gen detailing quickly fade into the background, and it soon feels like just another day in Liberty City. (After all, there have been five games with the exact same tone and story framework before this one.) At 20%, I'm skipping the Ben Hur-length cut scenes, and groaning every time I have to drive all the way across town. GTA: IV has a clever system that allows taxis to instantly take you across long distances. The problem with this is, now I'm furious when I can't find a cab. Even...
...African tyrannies have dispensed with the awkward trial of popular votes altogether, and ruled as unapologetic autocracies. So why the need for a veneer of respectability, however thin, in Zimbabwe? The answer lies in the psychology of Mugabe and his fellow liberation leaders, many of whom came from a background of elite academia. Mugabe himself has seven degrees, most of them earned during the 11 years he spent in prison when the country was called Rhodesia...
Martin said in a phone interview yesterday that Palfrey’s background in technology will serve him well as library director...
...Faculty and the deans feel that they need, and helping with the timing of when to bring tenure cases to Mass Hall,” Zipser said. “There’s a variety of data and process and procedure that needs to happen in the background to make sure that the Faculty can proceed in a timely way.” Zipser will be stepping in for the Faculty’s outgoing Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Brian W. Casey, who in addition to dealing with Faculty appointments, took on duties involving data collection and analysis...
...answers the door in her pink bathrobe. But the relative lack of dress belies her actual state of preparedness. Party make-up on and party-state in mind, Adelmen is only one quick outfit change away from the start of her night. The rap music she blares in the background is routinely punctuated by knocks on the door, and the common room gradually fills with more and more of Adelman’s friends. Teetering in a pair of black wedge shoes, Adelman checks the time via iPhone before neatly dropping the gadget into a shiny, gold clutch. It?...