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...both men were swatting away charges about their brains and their tempers with the other great weapon in this race, the sword of authenticity. "The only thing I know to do is be myself," Bush told TIME, when asked if it bothered him to be tarred as a lightweight. "And, ya know, if people like it, fine; if they don't like it, that's the way it is." As for McCain, he argued to TIME that his imperfections only improved him. "By realizing that you are a person with some weaknesses, it gives you a better appreciation that others...
...selective nature of Harvard academics has been called into question by the double-edged sword of the World Wide Web, the great democratizer of information and violator of copyrights. Specifically, Versity.com, an on-line "knowledge center" that collects lecture notes from colleges across the country, has begun this fall to have Harvard courses featured on its site, paying Harvard students to summarize the lectures they attend and then posting lecture notes on the Web to anyone who desires them and is willing to register...
...Heaven (Valusoft; $19.99), a "Christian action game," is to attain enlightenment by playing either a divine or a fallen angel. As a good angel, you wave a sword of the spirit at demons who seem to be wearing little green bikinis. As a fallen angel, you get to stick your claws into those insufferably righteous angels. Guess which one kids are going to pick. So why give the option to be evil? The designers use the free-will argument and note that choosing the fallen angel leads to murder and self-destruction. In the post-Columbine era, that may bear...
...wants to undergo the knife, so they look at the laser as some sort of magic wand," says Joan Kron, 71, author of Lift: Wanting, Fearing and Having a Facelift, her 1998 primer on facial surgery. "It's a very exciting field. But it's a double-edged 'light' sword, because there's a lot of bamboozling out there...
...WHAT TO LOOK FOR: Being a 17th century Jacobian tragedy, one would expect blood,guts, sex and horrific violence. Women Beware Women will not fail you in this respect: the director (Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Fair Child) confirms that there is plenty of poison, incest and sword fighting to satisfy even the most macabre appetite...