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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They are part of the Beantown zeitgeist. To crib a phrase from Mel Brooks, their trails and ultimate failures are of world-wide importance. As far as the average Hub resident knows, the front page of the International Herald Tribune reads "SOX WIN (Berlin: It's War, see page 3)" every...
...particularly struck by one of General Sharon's statements. "Who could have imagined, even one year ago," he wailed, red-faced with indignation, "that Israel would deal with the PLO?" Change the intonation, subtract the angry epithets ("a gang of terrorists") that Sharon attached at the end of the phrase, and it's exactly the message we're hearing from architects and supporters of the Gaza-Jericho plan...
Playing in a MUD is like wandering through a literary maze. Scenes are sketched out in a phrase or two -- a woody glade, a drafty cave -- and you move from one to the other by typing commands: go west, climb up, enter castle. In your travels, you run into various objects (a giggling robot, a sleeping sloth) as well as other characters. These can be other players, logging on from a remote computer, or cleverly designed computer programs masquerading as humans. You can communicate with anyone you meet by either speaking (typing a message that appears on the other player...
...spend your vacation there. In the relentless quest for the tourist dollar, even places like Kashmir (400 civilians killed last month) and North Korea (no casualties, but why go?) are advertising their supposed charms. "Be a Chinese soldier for a day" gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "military tour." "Visit Shibam, famous for its exquisite Yemenite architecture." Oops, forgot to mention the bands of armed tribesmen who routinely kidnap Westerners. "Revel in the spectacular scenery of Vietnam's China Beach." Regret that most hotels are Stalinist-style tenements built by the Soviets...
...cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase, or reading about the "Xian myth...