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...pushes on. We'll be busy tonight rolling the dice--and tossing black balls--deciding magazine fate. And next week, once again, we wuss out. But this time it's your fault: You won't be here. Venerable Thanksgiving arrives once again, sending us home on the Delta Shuttle. Need turkey-stuffing tips? See "How To: Stuff a Turkey" (page eight). In our hearts will be those left to fend for themselves. We apologize that FM listings (starting page 16) end on Wednesday, just when stranded students might start looking beyond...
...stuttering weed of a 12-year-old, and Chris Root, who spent a year living with the Schaefers after transferring to our high school. They're game designers now. I can remember us all huddled in Erich's darkened bedroom, a Rush album blaring as we rolled 20-sided dice, hunched over the charts, graphs and tables of a Dungeons & Dragons expedition. This was the future brain trust of a company worth hundreds of millions. How could I have missed that...
...speck in a universe whose extent is beyond our capacity to fathom, the unprecedented growth of human power has correspondingly created an imperative for humility. It is no accident that during a life of incomparable scientific achievement, Einstein often said, "God does not play dice with the universe...
...modern children's program of my generation. It subverted all recognizable forms and deconstructed the pre-teen's understanding of such important institutions as the family, the school and the video arcade. When the school teacher did not know any better than to call Milton's masterpiece "Pair of Dice Lost," the program functioned as an ideological clarion call to future college students like you who would go on to demand the displacement of an ossified Western canon with more relevant investigations of low culture. Several years ago a student who will remain nameless--her name was Jen--handed...
...downing of a U.S. jet shows, the attack on Serbia is easily the riskiest and most complex military action of Clinton's presidency, his biggest roll of the dice. U.S. interests in Kosovo are murky, the coalition is fragile, the terrain unforgiving, and the enemy holds a lot of cards. And if you look closely, you can see the unmistakable damage from impeachment: the public is behind him by a thinner than normal majority as the operation begins. Credibility abroad begins at home...