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...Governor John Engler, meanwhile, was recruiting a mighty power base among the nation's G.O.P. Governors, the only Republicans who got away with their shirts after the 1998 elections. From his nest down in Austin, campaign guru Karl Rove lured moneymen and operatives from every important state into a Virtual Smoke-Filled Room built out of calls and faxes and 300 e-mails a day. And all the while, Prince George stayed home, breaking all the rules of politics and inventing his own. He went nowhere near Iowa or New Hampshire, gave few big speeches, held no fund raisers, cruised...
...form considerably since the halcyon days of Dungeons & Dragons, the original game played by dateless dweebs in rec rooms across America on Saturday nights. Today's fantasy worlds are designed by software gurus, are presented on the Web and swarm with tens of thousands of players. The result is virtual societies like Ultima Online, which in two years amassed 125,000 players so fervent that pieces of exclusive real estate on the Ultima site--think of it as the Ultima in-game equivalent of a duplex on Manhattan's Upper East Side--regularly sell on eBay for more than...
Well, millions of Quake freaks would beg to differ, but there's no doubting the depths of the Everquesters' passions; already tales are circulating of companies' banning the game from their in-house machines and college girlfriends stealing the discs from their boyfriends' PCs. Last week eBay had 140 virtual Everquest items up for auction: weapons, spells, even the game's currency trading for U.S. dollars--what one might call a cyber exchange rate...
...minimum, marriage classes introduce kids to the nitty-gritty problems that can arise in close relationships. "We didn't agree at all," says Lupita Hernandez, 18, who went down the virtual aisle with Bryan Medina this month at California's Half Moon Bay High School. "He wanted to go to Las Vegas on our honeymoon, and I wanted to go to a beach in Mexico like Cancun. I got really frustrated...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataPresumably, Greenspan will stop worrying too -? if he ever started. Many saw the Fed?s "bias shift" in May as a virtual rate hike, one that showed up in the market?s interest rates and took some steam out of stocks without the central bank?s actually having to do anything. Now, there are only two reasons for the Fed to raise rates at its June 29 meeting ?- to loosen up labor markets or simply to bare its teeth ?- and neither seems compelling enough for Alan & the Gang to act before the next meeting, in August...