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...them what they do in Norrath, and they will talk about slaying MOBs (for mobile objects, a slang term for Norrath's monsters), collecting plats (platinum pieces, the highest form of Norrath currency) and joining with other players to form guilds. It is that last part that's key. For EverQuest addiction is, at heart, a pleasantly social disease. "It's what players bring to the game that makes it what it is," says Will Wright, creator of the best-selling PC game The Sims, who plays EverQuest with his 15-year-old daughter and is hard at work...
...Grammy-winning R. and B. trio TLC, in a car crash while on vacation; in Honduras. The group's 1994 sophomore venture CrazySexyCool went quadruple-platinum. Lopes had recently signed to produce her second solo album under the moniker NINA, short for New Identity Not Applicable and gangsta slang for a 9-mm gun. DIED. LINDA BOREMAN, 53, better known as Linda Lovelace, star of the notorious 1972 sex flick Deep Throat who later turned antiporn activist, of injuries from a car crash; in Denver, Colorado (see Eulogy). DIED. PAM BAKER, 71, gutsy lawyer and human rights activist; in Macclesfield...
...Rotters’ Club, Jonathan Coe presents a vivid and telling portrait of Birmingham, England in the 1970s. Focusing primarily on the adolescent Benjamin Trotter, whom his schoolmates jokingly call Bent Rotter—from the British slang for homosexual—the book tackles the standard issues of English high school, such as dealings with the opposite sex, parents, bullies, peers and, of course, the tribulations of wearing a uniform. But it also breaches the deeper problems of labor relations and unions, race relations, music, extra-marital affairs, the aftermath of World War II, religion, meaningless...
David C. Newman ’03 is a government concentrator in Quincy House. As FM’s beleaguered proofer, he serves as the Crimson news executive responsible for controlling the magazine’s obsession with Jay-Z-derived slang. He can be reached at dnewman@fas.harvard.edu. As this issue went to print, Shelley finally e-mailed Dave back—to alert him that she had received an unintended e-mail from FM compers seeking reporting advice for an upcoming story. Score...
...Trilogy project, an information systems overhaul scheduled to go on line over the next several years. But Ken Senser, the assistant director for security, is moving faster: he has installed safeguards designed to pick up on activities as blatant as Hanssen's habit of running his name and spook slang through the computers to see if the FBI was onto him. A career CIA official who moved to the FBI in 1999, he admits to being surprised at the low priority accorded security prior to Hanssen's arrest in February...