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By day, Bartosz Bruski works in computer forensics, but in his down time, the 29-year-old unwinds by heading to a trailer park outside Warsaw, where he directs a group of around 60 Polish people who pretend to be ordinary Americans – people from Ohio, to be exact. You might think LARPing (short for live action role play) basically means a bunch of people dressed in medieval outfits, recreating historical battles. Instead, Bartek and his fellow LARP enthusiasts turn a peaceful holiday resort in a Polish forest into an American trailer park, with dozens of participants who stay in character with...

The ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee has charged that senior Bush administration officials have disclosed classified information to a prominent journalist "for partisan purposes," sending a message to government officials that leaks "receive blessings from the very top."

Platoons of diplomats and politicians have solved the problems of Israel and the Palestinians -- again! The United States, the UN, Russia and the European Union, working together as "the Quartet," claim that their wisdom will produce a final settlement and an "independent, democratic and viable Palestine." Delivering their formula to both sides on Wednesday, they predicted that the crucial changes will fall into place in 2005. The seven-page "road map" embodying these instructions appears to have been written in another world, a Never-Never Land where nobody's historical memory goes back even to the bitter failures of the 1990s. It...