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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...
...DIED. MADELINE JAYNES, 59, trenchant journalist who brought a talent for discerning nuance and spotting inconsistency to the New York Times, CNN and Time; of cancer; in Brooklyn, N.Y. She had been a reporter working with TIME's international editions since 1997 and had become a mainstay in the magazine's global news gathering operations...
Consider Harvard’s illustrious English department, which offered the Morris Gray Lectureship to Tom Paulin, a poet who has said that Brooklyn-born Jews who move to Israeli settlements should be shot dead and who refers to the “Zionist S.S.” in one of his poems. Having come under fire for its choice, the department cancelled Paulin’s invitation...
Paulin, an award-winning Irish poet and a lecturer at Oxford, has been castigated for making comments perceived as anti-Israeli and hateful, including one statement that that Brooklyn-born settlers in the West Bank in Israel “should be shot dead...
Paulin has come under fire for statements he has made regarding conflict in the Middle East. He said that Brooklyn-born settlers on the West Bank in Israel “should be shot dead,” according to one Egyptian newspaper. And he wrote of “Zionist SS” who shot “another little Palestinian boy” in one of his poems...