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...Knights was a critical hit, mostly because players have the freedom to choose the Jedi or Sith sides of the Force. Star Wars Galaxies, an online game with thousands of players, allows them to choose their species (now anyone can be a Wookie). Mercifully, no one gets to be Jar Jar...
...himself firmly in the Bill Clinton wing of the Democratic party, where fiscal discipline matters more than big spending. Kerry even dropped some of the more costly programs he had proposed during the primaries, like universal preschool. He?s saying to voters: you can trust me with the cookie jar...
...Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories is, as one might infer by glancing at the title, not much more refreshing. Newsday claims that the work is “destined to take its place alongside the classics of adolescent angst, Girl Interrupted and The Bell Jar...
Like Angela, many secret stashers are saving for a rainy-day catastrophe--divorce, unemployment or a sudden shortfall in the family budget. Donna Johns, 44, of Ocala, Fla., started depositing spare change in an olive jar hidden in a kitchen cabinet after giving birth to a premature baby six years ago. She had quit her job to care for the infant, so money was tight. "You'd be impressed at how fast it adds up," she says. Over the years, the olive jar, which reached $600 at its peak, has paid for Christmas presents and car insurance. Relieved whenever...
...type of person who so radically mislays herself? Someone who decides at 2 a.m. to take a hammer to her expensive patio? At her best, the woman who played Princess Leia in Star Wars is still the last word in snappy madcaps, Bette Midler in The Bell Jar. "Suzanne thought it hilarious," she tells us, "that there was an illness whose symptoms were spending sprees, substance abuse and sexual promiscuity. These didn't sound like symptoms at all--just a typical weekend in Vegas...