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Bazookas or no, the bloodshed is surprisingly mild in most hunting simulations. Animals tend to be felled quite, uh, tastefully, and the games are far less violent than the typical "first-person shooter" like Quake II. Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and professor at M.I.T., says that in a curious way, hunting simulators may ultimately benefit kids who are increasingly confronted with the blurring of reality and virtual reality. "This generation of children is developing the skills to distinguish between virtual experiences and physical ones," she says. "I see these hunting games as part of that process--and that...
Forbidden Love, the first-person account of the relationship between schoolteacher Mary Letourneau, now 36, and her "victim," Vili Fualaau, now 15, hit the bookstores in Paris last week. The book portrays a couple who, while fond of each other, had very different views on several issues, including the source of their attraction (She: "He is...a poet capable of lyricism, an artist full of spirit and talent"; He: "I was 12 years old and I had never f___ed anyone... I wanted to...see what it was like"); whom their relationship might affect (She: "They never told me, never...
...Forbidden Love," the first-person account of the relationship between schoolteacher Mary Letourneau, now 36, and her "victim," Vili Fualaau, now 15, hit the bookstores in Paris last week. The book portrays a couple who, while fond of each other, had very different views on several issues, including the source of their attraction (She: "He is... a poet capable of lyricism, an artist full of spirit and talent"; He: "I was 12 years old and I had never f___ed anyone... I wanted to... see what it was like"); whom their relationship might affect (She: "They never told me, never...
David Harlan wrote that American historians used to write "morally instructive histories-histories that taught us to speak in the first-person plural." As George Will noted in a column last year, these histories were usually about "the greatness of great men and the nobility of American ideals." He continued, "Those were the sort of writings that moved Martin Luther King Jr. to say that reading history made him feel 'eternally in the red,' that is, with an un-payable debt to those whose lives are imperishable examples of worthy aspirations." The current academic climate, though, of showing the United...
...First-person accounts of great events are usually the most fascinating, and Richard Holbrooke's tale of the cliffhanger that culminated in the 1995 Dayton, Ohio, peace accords is no exception. To End a War (Random House; 432 pages; $27.95) is a riveting book...