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Barack Obama would no doubt recognize the protest of the defeated Celtic chief Calgacus to the Romans occupying his homeland: “Atque ubi solitudinum faciunt pacem appellant,” that is, “They create a desolation and call it a peace.” The phrase is a famous critique of the type of peace armies and occupation can bring and has no been invoked in columns and essays to argue against the American invasion of Iraq from day one. If elected as America’s next president, Obama risks creating a different kind...

Author: By D. MORGAN Potts | Title: The Wrong Type of Peace | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...SEMPER UBI SUB UBI...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comics ‘Stand’ Our Questions | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...lighted. Sure, you can buy an external light (Nyko's Worm Light is $10), but you shouldn't have to. Once we turned up the lights, Jokim volunteered that with Advance, "you move quicker and you can jump higher. It looks like a TV." Rea fell for Ubi Soft's Rayman, which is similar to Pinobee. "It's hot!" she said. "It looks like the sky is moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Kids Want | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

Even when T.M.U. teaches a "dead and completely useless language," as it does in Roman Studies 25, it does so in a way that will assist the modern student. Thus, the matriculator at T.M.U. learns how to say travellers checks in Latin and ask, "Ubi est Americanus Expressus...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: An Academia Nut | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Category: games created by the rich and famous. Question: What do the makers of Trivial Pursuit offer as a follow-up to their wildly popular parlor pastime? Answer: the World According to UBI, a Q&A treasure-hunt game played on a geographical map, which went on sale last week in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston and Philadelphia for $35. This time Trivial Masterminds Scott & Abbott and Chris and John Haney wanted to come up with something too complicated to copy. Says Chris: "We got kind of cheesed off by the Trivial Pursuit knockoffs appearing all over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 10, 1986 | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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