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For those who see politics as a chess game for scoundrels, it was all great fun. Free on bail, refusing to resign, brassy Blago had turned the tables on rectitudinous Reid. In Illinois a person is governor until proved guilty, and some legal scholars opined that Burris had the bona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

After downloading the software to your PlayStation, you log in and create an avatar, which you pilot using your PlayStation controller. Much like the Wii system, your avatar's features are customizable--within limits. Want your character to be 8 ft. (2.4 m) tall? Forget it. Humans are sized like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A PG-Rated Second Life | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

While you can clothe your character in free off-the-rack stuff, Sony clearly hopes you'll spend real money to buy virtual outfits from the likes of Diesel, which will have a store in the virtual mall. Sony has a number of partner relationships already in place. You'll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A PG-Rated Second Life | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

Tuesday’s spectacle on Capitol Hill reminded us that politics, at its most basic level, boils down to questions of force: Roland W. Burris may call himself the junior senator from Illinois, but an armed man in uniform stood between the former Illinois attorney general and his seat...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Much Ado About Illinois | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

Confronting the Danger Within Even in a dangerous neighborhood, it is possible to imagine that, secure in its military power, Israel could continue for years in a state of neither all-out war nor true peace, always willing to fight bitter but limited conflicts of the kind it did in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza? | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

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