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Running the show at EA Games

Frank Gibeau has a big day ahead with the September launch of Spore, but that's not all that the EA exec has on his plate.

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Mills & Boon: the art of love

100 years of covers featuring square-jawed heroes and shy virgins.

 

 

 

Franz Kafka, party animal

 

Review: Excavating Kafka by James Hawes
Life wasn't really such a trial for the supposedly tortured artist, says his new biographer. Joanna Kavenna explains

• Blog: Nicholas Lezard on Kafka's guilty pleasures

 

 

Jihadis shift attention to war in Afghanistan
Afghan and NATO officials are seeing a rise in numbers of foreign fighters in Afghanistan at the same time US officials say attacks by Al Qaeda in Iraq have sharply dropped.

 

 

 

Russia-Georgia conflict: Why both sides have valid points
As Russian troops prepare to withdraw from Georgian bases and cities they invaded last week, a look at the two contradictory stories of what happened and why.

 

 

 

Afghan officials clamp down on the press
Government agencies are intimidating and arresting journalists. The crackdown marks the decline of a hard-won, post-Taliban-era achievement: press freedom.

 

 

 

Why US-Poland missile deal rouses Russian bear
US officials say the system is merely a protection against rogue states like Iran.

 

 

 

 

addenda

from the August 19, 2008 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0819/p03s01-nbgn.html Etc. Serving as vice president isn't an expressway to Oval Office While experience as vice president might seem the logical job training for the Oval Office, only 13 VPs have ever served as president, and only eight of those were ever elected to hold the job, the last being George H.W. Bush. Six vice presidents who moved up did so when the men they served under died, were assassinated, or resigned. Only Harry Truman, who took over when Franklin Roosevelt died at the start of his third term, and Lyndon Johnson, who stepped in after John Kennedy's assassination, ever went from serving unexpired terms to winning presidential elections. The presidents who first served as vice presidents, with their years in the White House corner office: VPs elected to presidency • John Adams 1797-1801 • Thomas Jefferson 1801-09 • Theodore Roosevelt 1901-09 • Calvin Coolidge 1923-29 • Harry Truman 1945-53 • Lyndon Johnson 1963-69 • Richard Nixon 1969-74 • George H.W. Bush,1989-93 VPs who completed unexpired presidential terms • John Tyler 1841-45 • Millard Fillmore 1850-53 • Andrew Johnson 1865-69 • Chester A. Arthur 1881-85 • Harry Truman see list above • Lyndon Johnson see list above • Gerald Ford 1974-77 Full HTML version of this story which may include photos, graphics, and related links