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...electorate handed a clear majority to the left, a bunch of parties whose battle cry was "No change." These are the Social Democrats, who turned against their own reforms during the campaign, the Greens, who think that "social justice" and ecological correctness trump growth, and the newest entrant, the Left Party, which roped in 9% of the vote with a kind of reactionary socialist utopia: down with globalization, more welfare, less competition, "soak the rich...
Multiplayer games--in which participants compete via the Internet--continue to grow in popularity. The most dramatic entrant this year was Battlefield: Vietnam (for PC; $39.99), a surprisingly likable simulation of America's least-liked conflict. Choose one of a dozen maps (from the Mekong Delta to the fall of Saigon) and log on to a server with 30 or so like-minded players. The server automatically divides you into Americans and Viet Cong. Then all you have to do is capture as many enemy flags as you can and try to get killed as few times as possible (death...
...Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City announced that Yoshio Taniguchi had won a 10-entrant competition against world-famous architects like Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas to design the museum's $425 million overhaul. Around the world, art lovers and architecture mavens alike responded with a loud, bemused, "Who?" So unknown was the 67-year-old architect outside his native Japan that one confused well-wisher congratulated Terence Riley, MOMA's chief curator of architecture and design, on selecting "Tony Gucci," a nonexistent Italian architect...
...speed, but also its credibility. Still, even the athletes understand the public trust is tenuous. "The faster I run," says Lauryn Williams, 20, who won two medals, a 100-m silver and 4X100 relay gold, at these Olympics, "the less people will believe I am clean." As the first entrant in the post-BALCO era, U.S. track and field shot off the starting blocks in Athens. Let's hope this isn't a false start...
...second time in two years, the Crimson met the Big Green in Albany with a spot in the ECAC Championship on the line. Once again, Harvard emerged with a win and advanced to face Clarkson—a surprise entrant in Albany after beating the Big Red on its home...