Word: suburbanity
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...those who have never played it, GTA3 (as its fans affectionately call it) sounds like just another escapist shoot-'em-up, a virtual urban war game for suburban armchair delinquents. But while most video games put you in a fantastic setting--say, a blue maze full of dots--GTA3 is set in Liberty City, a metropolis as realistic and richly detailed as Dickens' London, with weather that changes hourly and carefully rendered litter tumbling down its meticulously drawn streets. Most video games give you a challenge, like eating all the dots while dodging hungry pastel-colored ghosts. In GTA3, your...
...most terrifying murder rampages in the country's history, one that had led the White House to contemplate opening up military bases so children could go trick-or-treating in safety and that had induced otherwise rational residents to scurry in a zigzag formation across bland suburban parking lots. In three weeks, the case elicited 138,000 tip-line calls, seven times the number the Unabomber case yielded over 18 years. The 14 shots took 10 lives, though the tally may still not be complete. The FBI is investigating whether unsolved murders and petty thefts in other locales, from...
...locals braced themselves for the next live report, making whatever small adjustments they could concoct. Suburban gas-station owners began turning their surveillance cameras 180°, so they pointed toward the outlying roadways and woods. And a Virginia prosecutor, lacking a suspect, talked to TV cameras about two different ways he could try to impose the death penalty on the sniper, should he ever be caught alive. --With reporting by Melissa August, Perry Bacon Jr., Eric Roston, Elaine Shannon, Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington and Amanda Bower and Jodie Morse/New York
...pick up girls,” says Guillermo A. Coronado ’05, who has made his share of off-campus trips. “Especially because I don’t personally identify with the typical Harvard male—the white male from the well-off suburban area who went to all of these prestigious schools. That’s not me. And anyone who shows any interest in me after I say Harvard is completely off my mind...
...Hutchinson became a Democrat - for the second time - largely by chance. A rising star as mayor of Bettendorf, a suburban town on the Mississippi, she was courted by both parties. The Republicans wanted her to run for lieutenant governor four years ago; she didn't like the head of the ticket. The Dems, in 1996, asked her to vie for Congress against Jim Leach; she figured he couldn't lose. But with redistricting last year, Leach moved west, leaving Nussle the man to beat in the First District. "He lost much of his rural base; 42% of the district...