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...look as though she could take on an Olsen twin, let alone the monsters marauding through her homeland, but fortunately she can transform into 10 different elemental warriors, including a flower with a very nasty attitude. Psychedelic and Zelda-esque, Kameo is the most distinctive of the 360 launch titles. It's the closest you will get to dreaming with your eyes open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Games: 8 Great Xbox 360 Games | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...powerful in the war-torn Anbar province. With two of his fellow defense attorneys found dead in the Iraqi capital in the past few weeks, al-Dulaimi has reason to be wary, and, he told TIME, the looming threat of being kidnapped and murdered is crippling his ability to launch an adequate defense of the fallen dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Defending a Tyrant | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...berated him after the discovery was made public, Jabr was apportioned his ministry by political agreement, and al-Jaafari, who is also Shi'ite but of another party, can do nothing to get rid of him. Jabr has denied allegations that militiamen have been using the Iraqi police to launch a campaign of terrorism against Sunnis. "I swear on the name of God," Abu Rasul al-Shebani, spokesman for the Badr Corps, told TIME, "nobody in the Badr Corps is in the Ministry of the Interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Note To My Successor | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...comfortable. Boxes are backed up in the corner of his office, never unpacked. Framed pictures lean against the wall, unlikely to be hung. He often recalls a discussion he had as a young student in the holy city of Karbala, when he told a friend of his ambition to launch an opposition movement. The friend stopped him and warned that managing Iraq would be much harder than getting to power. "He was right about this," al-Jaafari says. A lesson the next Prime Minister should note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Note To My Successor | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...available in the late 1990s, but the technology was clunky and the game less popular than sports betting and lotteries. Dikshit created a version that enabled multiple players to participate, and PartyGaming quickly went after the market leader at the time, Paradise Poker. "We weren't ready for the launch when we did launch" in August 2000, Bhargava recalls, shuddering at the site's initial reliability problems. The breakthrough came a year later, when the company hired a well-known poker player, Mike Sexton. He came up with a gimmick that got gamblers' attention: a $1 million first-place prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing: How the U.S. Is Getting Beat in Online Gambling | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

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