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...increasing the availability of social space without increasing the restrictions. Columbia’s new student center, for example, was built with a dance floor and DJ booth in the basement, so students could bounce to parties there. At Wellesley and Stanford, there are campus pubs where students can go and enjoy a pitcher of beers in the safety of their living space. Yale is far more active in encouraging their students to throw parties in dorm common spaces—and allowing the students to include alcohol, unlike many House-sponsored parties here. One very easy solution would...
Someday soon, some bright spark will make a video game version of E3, the annual games conference in Los Angeles. You will play a journalist running from booth to booth, trying to avoid being deafened by hundreds of booming sound systems. Replenish your energy meter with $10 hamburgers! Try not to stare at the scantily-clad Booth Babes! Find parking! The ultimate aim will be to play a game for more than five minutes without a company media rep telling you how great it is. If their presence overloads your hype meter, it's game over...
...after all, a conference about fun. Surely spending three days looking at games beats any day job? But as attendees know, E3 is more like a cult rally than a high-tech sandbox. It's a little like Jonestown, only the Kool-Aid comes in iced cans at every booth and the only corpses are the ones piling up on the TV screens...
...likelihood, not suffer much for it. Blair's suffering, however, may have just begun. Upon resigning, he told the Associated Press, "I have been struggling with recurring personal issues, which have caused me great pain. I am now seeking appropriate counseling." --Reported by Jodie Morse/New York, Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas and Viveca Novak/Washington
...likes to skirt the edges of the diamond: he keeps a lonely big-league scout company as he roves bedraggled backwoods ball parks in search of talent, he hunts down the aging grandmaster Bob Gibson in retirement, and he joins Shakespeare-quoting baseball announcer Tim McCarver in the broadcast booth. The pieces are arranged to follow the chronology of the season rather than of the century, a configuration that doesn't make sense until you start reading, and some of the best writing comes at the beginning, in the chapters covering the meaningless, sun-soaked overture of spring training. There...