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...says Truelson, “you form connections with certain characters, and get emotionally involved in what happens to them. I asked myself: why don’t those same connections form with characters in video games?” In the same vein, the group is bent on increasing flexibility in video games. Games like the Mario Brothers series, in which the character follows a single linear path, give the player few options. The Legend of Zelda, however, allows the player to go wherever he or she wants in the game, and even have adventures that are unrelated...
Allen returned to New York less enchanted with academic life than he had been before. But downtown reading groups on Marx and Baudrillard reminded him of his cerebral bent. “I thought, if I’m naturally gravitating to these reading groups, I might as well go to grad school in philosophy...
This blindingly obvious subversion of student press rights rightly caused an uproar. HBS bent its Community Standards clause until it broke. HarBus’s editorial cartoon may have been rude, but sometimes it’s the crass speech that gets the “incompetent morons” to fix their buggy software. Administrators at all levels must keep this in mind before they overstep their bounds and irresponsibly try to shut down dissent...
...seeing schools like Pembroke and the Sargent School of Education at Tufts disappear, we perhaps should have. Many of these schools either merged with their affiliates or disappeared. It was a scene of us not really looking down the road, then of not being totally bent out of shape about it when it happened. It was the natural evolution of time and of what Radcliffe was hoping to achieve...
...quarantine themselves for up to two weeks. (That's lax compared with Taiwan, which has slapped outright bans on travelers from the mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada.) China's central government has insisted that the country's internal borders will remain open, but mobs of angry villagers bent on protecting their towns have thrown up ad hoc roadside health checks and blockades. Ming Productions, a film company scheduled to shoot four movies in China over the coming year, has had to postpone much of its slate because of SARS-related complications. "It's been very disruptive," moans Ming founder...