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...just think there's a William Hung in every one of us." KELVIN SIM, 23-year-old contestant on Singapore's version of American Idol, referring to the Hong Kong-born engineering student who turned failure on the U.S. show into an ear-curdling singing career...
...Cambodian People's Party (CPP) received the most votes in last July's election but was short of winning the two-thirds of parliamentary seats required to govern alone. Two days before Hun Sen was sworn in, military police surrounded the home of party rival Chea Sim, acting head of state and CPP president, forcing him to flee the country...
Along the way, you'll try to steer your Sims toward the life goals you chose for them (like raising a family or making a fortune) and away from their big fears (like being cheated on). Unlike us, the Sims get a final life score. But like us, they get to live on through children, whose features are an adorable random mix of those of both parents. They get to record the most precious moments of their Sim lives through in-game cameras...
...when you watch a home movie of your third Sim great-grandchild, then buy her toys to turn her into the genius you know she will eventually want to be, you get some sense of the game's unusual long-term emotional hook. Imagine those Tamagotchi virtual pets looking just like your kid brother and endlessly spawning new generations of themselves...
...safe houses in Gaza's warren of refugee camps where Hamas supporters are eager to shelter them. The leadership no longer travels in cars but walks, sticking to back alleys instead of main arteries. The bosses do not answer incoming calls; they use fresh cell phones with batteries and SIM cards that can be removed when they want to place a call. The political heads don't attend "martyrs'" funerals, as they used to, and their rare public appearances take place mainly on television. Before, an activist tells me, the leaders gave the broad mass of the movement moral support...