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...shadow of the Iraq invasion in April 2003, one of Beyer's two best friends arranged to drop out. Another ally, Lisa Huntington, also started the paperwork. Please, Beyer told her as Commitment Day approached, please don't leave me here alone. They talked, day after day. "I was either going to convince her to stay," Beyer says, "or convince myself to leave with her." On Aug. 17, 2003, in the cavernous Robinson Auditorium, Beyer and Huntington stood together among their classmates and took their oath. "We were bawling," Beyer says, "but we made it through...
...years, cadets can take some electives, like international relations and cultural anthropology. The subjects were getting more interesting, especially as the academy raced to meet new demands. Vincent Viola, a '77 West Point grad who on 9/11 was chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange, which stood in the shadow of the Twin Towers, credited his academy training with helping him steer the exchange to a speedy recovery. In gratitude, he donated $2 million in seed money for a Combating Terrorism Center at the academy. The center was up and running by February 2003, under the leadership of Colonel Russell...
...anyone in South Korea is living in the shadow of the North Korean Bomb, it is the people of Ilsan, a town of 500,000 situated north of Seoul just a few kilometers from the gash of barbed wire and land mines that has divided the Korean peninsula since 1953. From a local lookout point, the town's residents can peer across a stretch of river at the scrubby, brown hills of North Korea, knowing that hidden from view are bunkers, artillery and rockets that could turn their town into rubble in an hour. But for people like...
...side by side with the 2006 version, currently a work in progress. The grass in the old version looks like a green carpet; in the new version, each blade of grass is animated individually and sways to its own rhythm. In the old version, trees make crude, round, blobby shadows; in the new version, each individual leaf has its corresponding individually rendered leaf shadow. The play of light on the water hazards is not readily distinguishable from a filmed image. The fidelity is disconcerting: it gives you a vertiginous feeling, as if you were going to fall into the screen...
When you're writing a novel, you have to live in the shadow of giants like Dickens and Proust and Roth. But video games are only 30 years old, and they don't have their Dickens yet. Or do they? "Creating a game," Laidlaw says, "there's always this feeling that you're going into unknown territory." --By Lev Grossman