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The Sims may be the most popular PC game of all time, but there are plenty of players who don't find it escapist enough. So what if you're supposed to manage willful little people through their eating, sleeping and bathroom habits? Isn't that their parents' job? Space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: Top 10 Video Games: Who's Got Game? | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

burden, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that Ankara was "re-evaluating" its offer of troops in light of vehement opposition to the idea from Iraqis and from Baghdad's interim governing council. Privately, Turkish officials said preparations for the deployment of 10,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 11/9/2003 | See Source »

Furthermore, in ancient civilizations such as India and China, some spoils of war and colonialism purloined a century or two ago by invaders have gradually come to be considered the legitimate property of whoever possesses them. Many international dealers and auction houses argue that Asia's turbulent history makes it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's Looted Treasures: Stealing Beauty | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

Despite the arbitrariness of our loyalties to Harvard and House, these loyalties quickly become deeply held and fiercely defended. Harvard is littered with buildings bearing the names of loyal alumni; the Coop devotes its entire first floor to sweatshirts, visors and Nalgene bottles to vend to the Harvard faithful. In...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: All the Wrong Reasons | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

A Pentagon official told me the idea of reactivating the army is "naive"--which is ironic, given the Pentagon's willful naivete about postwar Iraq. But I suspect that all these options will be attempted in the coming months, lest George W. Bush face the electorate in 2004 as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Losing Iraq? | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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