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...hands of its legions of devotees, the game has become an expressive language they can use to tell stories about their own lives. Briar Sauro, 27, a school librarian in Brooklyn, N.Y., readily admits to having a "slight Sims obsession," i.e., on a good day she limits herself to two or three hours. "It can take up my whole evening. I don't do anything else." She experiments with using The Sims to "re-create real-life interpersonal relationships." Sauro has created an entire Sims world full of her actual friends and family. "The first year I had the game...
...Adams' subjects are vast, ancient and rocky. His images of plants are delicate and detailed. In Trailside, near Juneau, Alaska (1947), briar leaves displaying every vein and dewdrop form a pattern with flowers and grass. Aspens, Northern New Mexico (1958) shows one small tree, its leaves drenched in sunlight, against a backdrop of grey stems and deep shadows. It's almost worth spending all your time at the show gazing at one such image...
...majority called this voucher system a 'neutral educational aid program'," says Barbara Perry, professor of government and Supreme Court expert at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. "In the view of the majority, this program does not aid or inhibit religion." Dissenters argue that there is not "true private choice" for parents - a test for voucher programs - because 80 percent of the schools getting money from this program were, in fact, religious schools...
With her degree from Duke, Francis took up teaching at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. But halfway through the 1961-62 school year, her employers found out she was pregnant with her first child. They promptly fired...
...officially as Warren M. Tusk 05, people are more likely to call him by another moniker: Tusk will often introduce himself as Vincent, Malachi or Charon to passersby who want to inquire about his antiquated dress. Tuskit is less complicated to refer to him by his last namehails from Briar Cliff, a suburb of New York. He is one of the first students to go to Harvard from his school, Briar Cliff High School, creating his immense talent, good looks and desirability...