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...understand Byrd, though, you have to understand his love of history, from devouring classics to penning tomes about the American and Roman Senates. When John Kennedy Jr. asked Byrd to list his summer reading for his magazine George, Byrd included such page turners as The Lives of the Twelve Caesars...
...like letting it all hang out. Our culture long ago lost touch with - in fact, came to despise - the virtues that an earlier generation would have called "Roman," like honor, restraint and stoicism. That's one reason for celebrating those individuals for whom such qualities were second nature...
...Rome: Total War (Creative Assembly) So you think modern warfare is tough? The Total War series, previously set in medieval Europe and Japan, has an unnerving ability to remind you just how bloody historical conflict could be. This time, you're at the head of entire Roman, Greek or Carthaginian legions-and get lay siege to entire cities. You've never been able to zoom in this close before, close enough to literally see the whites of the centurions' eyes. And you've never seen anything like the charge of those Carthaginian elephants...
...candidates for President on the couch and offers a prescription for fixing the party's chronic election woes. From his days covering politics for Rolling Stone, New York, Newsweek and the New Yorker to his best-selling work of fiction--as Anonymous, he wrote Primary Colors, the scaldingly funny roman a clef about Bill Clinton--Joe has emerged as one of America's premier political journalists. I'm thrilled to have him at TIME, even if he occasionally questions the wisdom of hitting the road for another round of motel rooms and crack-of-dawn pancake breakfasts...
...sexual risk taking? If the facts of his health had been known in 1960, of course, Kennedy never would have been elected President. This was a man who, three times before Dallas, had been in such dire physical condition that he was given the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. The presidential biographer Richard Reeves has remarked that "in a lifetime of medical torment, Kennedy was more promiscuous with physicians and drugs than he was with women...