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...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 problems are real-world problems, like parallel parking...
...military buglers scattered around the globe--there's a shortage of buglers available to play taps at funerals. The Pentagon's solution: a cone-shaped, electronic taps player that hides inside the bell of a standard bugle. Powered by a pair of 9-volt batteries, the all-weather unit emits a high-quality, dutifully mournful rendition of taps. Listeners say it's a big improvement over the tape and CD versions that some vets have had to endure coming from nonmilitary-issue boom boxes. The Pentagon has shipped 50 of the units to Missouri for a six-month test...
...under-the-weather, constantly sneezing, haggard and crazed-looking Will C. Benstein ’03 is sick of people telling him that he looks like shit. Comments Benstein, “Blech [snort...
...remember it was the first decent weather that we had in April. It was the most beautiful day after a long winter. Most college campuses go nuts in early April, but I think the reaction at Harvard that spring was excessive...
Despite grumbling about Harvard’s inability to control the rainy weather, hundreds of parents came to Cambridge this Freshman Parents’ Weekend to visit their children in the Class...