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HIGHLY CIVILIZED It's been five years since legendary gamemaker Sid Meier released Civilization II, the greatest computer strategy game of all time. Until now. Civilization III, released this fall, takes history simulation to the next level. You manage not only your fledging society's military and economy over 4,000 years but its trade and culture too, matching wits against such computer opponents as Chairman Mao and Abraham Lincoln. Better clear the decks: this one could swallow a few hundred weekends...
...Black and White creator Peter Molyneaux filled the floor way faster than Regis last year. This year, attendees are dreaming of Will Wright premiering the Sims Online, Sid Meier unveiling Civilization III or Mr. Miyamoto and his mysterious Nintendo Game Cube games. They can't wait to see what kind of a show-stopper Microsoft's X-box is, or whether last year's best of show, the still-unfinished Metal Gear Solid 2 for the PlayStation2, can live up to its Daikatana-sized expectations...
...Andrew Meier: This was not a sudden development - the group's journalists have expected this for months, ever since Gusinsky's arrest last year. And it has forced them to do a lot of soul-searching. It raises the dilemma of whether you try to stay on under the new management and earn the title of "strikebreaker," or do you stand on your principles and little else...
...Andrew Meier: The Turkish authorities are saying the hijackers announced themselves as Chechens before taking over the cockpit and causing the plane to take a 1,000-foot drop. But we have to treat that information with caution, particularly in light of the experience of January 1996 in which a group of "Chechen" hijackers took over a ferryboat from Turkey. Once they surrendered, it turned out most weren't Chechen, but that six of the nine were actually Turks. They were sentenced to eight years, but all later escaped. There were reports at the time that they might have been...
Kids will probably be hooked right away, since any visit to the Getty, situated high on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, in Los Angeles, starts with a ride on the child-wowing tram. Designed by Richard Meier, the buildings house a superb collection of paintings, decorative arts, photographs and ancient art, and are worth a visit in and of themselves...