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Students and faculty involved in the Harvard Living Wage Campaign, which organized the letter, said this latest effort may give the campaign the kind of legitimacy and appeal that would make the University respond...
Then again, maybe not. A good deal of the debate is confused, ideologically envenomed, or both. Left and right squabble furiously over the latest idea--totally replacing Social Security with a system of individual investment accounts. Now, even this market-based approach is being shelved by its Republican proponents, who have become fearful of the political risks...
EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE The hardest job in software is to make learning fun. Few games succeed, but the CARMEN SANDIEGO series (latest: WHERE IN THE U.S.A.?) comes pretty close. Kids chase the eponymous thief around the country, improving geography skills. If only Carmen could do the same for algebra...
ROLE PLAYING These games look like movies, except the players direct the action and the dialogue and must solve problems to find their way out of each "scene." The MONKEY ISLAND series (latest: CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND) is O.K. for all ages; GRIM FANDANGO, with its noir-ish themes, is better for mature teens and adults...
WORLD BUILDING The so-called God games turn kids into master builders. They can craft working metropolises--from sewers to skyscrapers--in SIM CITY 3000 or build empires to rule the world over 5,000 years of history in CIVILIZATION: CALL TO POWER, the latest and greatest in the popular Civ series. A taste of simulated despotism never hurt anyone...