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...Give it a try, you will love it. Don't follow rules, make them!" the instructions on the new Wordscraper game slyly exhort. Once a user installs the application (which, coincidentally, looks like a big, blank Scrabble board), he can create his own word game by adding special "double word" and "triple letter" tiles in any configuration he chooses. If a user happens to create a board that's identical to the original Scrabble and saves that setting - a feat that takes less than two minutes - he can elect to save the template and reuse it over and over again...
...course, Wordscraper isn't Scrabble. Players designing game boards can add any number of word-scoring tiles wherever they want. They can even add "quadruple word" tiles, which would be to Scrabble what arena football...
...Defining Patriotism Nowhere in Peter Beinart's article [July 14] did I see mention of the word nationalism, which is what much of far-right patriotism really is. It is not healthy to say, "I love my country, right or wrong." This leads to the delusion that our way of life is the right way for the whole world and that we should impose it on people if they are unwilling. I love my country too - and I am not ashamed to acknowledge all of its mistakes, as well as all of its accomplishments. Mark Fagerburg, RICHMOND...
...Father Eugene and his musical collaborators - his brother Martin O'Hagan, 45, and their childhood friend David Delargy, 44 - the path to stardom seems ordained from above. Earlier this year Epic Records, a division of Sony, scoured Europe for clergymen with the chops to record a Latin Mass album. Word of mouth led them to the trio, who started singing together 35 years ago at a Belfast boarding school, and later performed at their seminary in Rome. After hearing a demo tape, Nick Raphael, the managing director of Epic in the U.K., raced to sign them...
...time when Americans are dealing with rising food and fuel prices, slowing jobs and soaring home foreclosures, is it really possible that homelessness is on the decline? Perhaps, but it depends on your meaning of the word homeless...