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...lesson and never again played a computer game way, way more than is healthy, but I can't. Instead, I graduated to the harder stuff: Tetris, of course, Hearts, Doom, Bust-A-Move3. By then I was also doing console games--PlayStation and Nintendo 64, mostly, with some GameBoy thrown in for maintenance--and had involved my innocent wife as a co-dependent. In fact, she was the first one I hooked when I was recently turned on to a free game called Alchemy...
...This incident and others have thrown a spotlight on an issue that is causing growing concern in dorm rooms and student centers. Are colleges providing adequate care for students who may be struggling with a range of mental illnesses? In the Syracuse case, a spokesman for the school contends, "The university tried repeatedly to help Anita, and we felt that they acted appropriately." But lawyers are busy there and elsewhere...
...famous 1965 civil rights march, but by all accounts he wasn't the worst of segregationists and played no role in the beatings that occurred. As times changed, Smitherman's politics were right enough to appeal to Selma's white voters and centrist enough that he didn't get thrown out as an anachronism. He was running for a 10th re-election when, on Sept. 12 at age 70, he finally came up on the short end of a vote. James Perkins Jr., 47, a former computer consultant, was chosen as the first-ever black mayor of Selma with...
...June 21, while most of the royals attended a party thrown by Queen Elizabeth II for the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew--who in the days and weeks ahead would turn 100, 70, 50 and 40, respectively--Prince William spent his 18th birthday studying for finals at Eton. With his passage into young manhood, Di's son is fair prey for paparazzi...
Putin has thrown down the gauntlet, but the Bush Administration is full of old Cold Warriors. The challenge will be to develop a foreign policy that makes good on treating Russia as a competitor rather than an ally, but avoid alienating Washington's European allies who're already nervous about Bush's missile defense plans...