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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Facebook (or whatever network you're playing on) who also play Mafia Wars make up your family. They help you with your business and fight with you and send you gifts. The bigger the family, the better for business. And you have a lot of business: you develop real estate, act as a hired gun and attack other players. The more money you get, the more stuff you can buy, like weapons and vehicles. The more stuff you have, the more jobs you can do and the more money you get. Round and round you go. (See the 10 worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Odd Popularity of Mafia Wars | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...keys to Mafia Wars' appeal is that it's easy. Unlike in a "real" video game, you can't really lose. The constant stream of rewards is addictive; you become like a rat who can't stop pushing the lever to get the little pellets. Your resources constantly regenerate, and the game is always giving you random items that you don't even know how you earned. People in your mafia send you gifts too. The game will try to make you give them in return, and tell them about things you're doing and - this is important - recruit more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Odd Popularity of Mafia Wars | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...much a game as a parasite: it lives in the petri dish of the social-networking sphere and feeds off your attention. Try to quit, and it begs and bribes you to fall off the wagon again. It's just a game, but it's like the real mafia in that one respect: just when you think you're out, it pulls you right back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Odd Popularity of Mafia Wars | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...arranged protectively across her front as she shivers from the violation. The entire show is uncomfortable in its emotional, if not spatial, proximity—its intensity dull and ever-present, though not entirely unbearable. “We need to feel what we’re seeing is real,” shouts a male character in scene five (“The Camera Loves You”) at a different but similarly exposed incarnation of this original female character. “It isn’t just acting, it’s far more exacting than acting...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stone’s ‘Attempts’ An Awesome Success | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

This is where the duo says their slogan—“Real Leadership, New Solutions”—ceases being a gimmick and takes on practicality. Bowman and Hysen’s “New Solutions” comprise a range of ideas that will improve the lives of students without breaking the bank, they...

Author: By Amira Abulafi and Tara W. Merrigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Bowman-Hysen Boast Bi-Partisan Support | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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