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...Harvard Salient at the time, he had earned a reputation as a prolific writer and the foremost conservative on campus. With his recent selection to replace Bill Kristol ’73 as editorial columnist for the New York Times, he will become—at the tender age of 29—one of the nation’s most preeminent political commentators and visible conservative intellectuals...
...game StarCraft, published in 1997 by American company Blizzard Entertainment (now Activision Blizzard, a Viacom company). There are four major StarCraft tournaments that play three seasons annually, at around two months per season. The matches are recorded in front of a live studio audience (comprised mostly of high-school-age female fans) in one of the high-tech “eSports stadiums” sprinkled across Seoul. The footage is televised on one of the two cable channels or one Internet TV channel devoted exclusively to eSports content. In estimate, there are 18 million eSports fans in the country...
...where hundreds of thousands have been killed since 2003. Farrow focused on her own accounts of the widespread bloodshed and violence she saw on her most recent 4-week visit there for much of the event. “There were tribes where 100 percent of women over the age of eight had been raped,” said Farrow, who showed images of victims during her presentation. She said that approximately 40 percent of children in the region were malnourished, and that many large villages had been reduced to ruins. Farrow said she witnessed the destruction of one village...
...matched Obama for optimism, but struggled with the rhetoric. "We'll stick it out," she said of Britain's current economic difficulties, "if we have a picture that is so strong we can smell it." Mixed metaphors aside, pollsters shouldn't write her off just yet. In an age when people will pay to vote for aspiring pop stars more readily than they'll travel to the voting booths, the jury on the Jury Team is still...
...After initially pleading not guilty on some of the charges, Fritzl on Wednesday changed his plea to guilty on all charges - among them rape, incest, enslavement and murder. He is accused of imprisoning his daughter from age 18 in a tiny, windowless, unheated, rat-infested basement that reeked of mold and lacked warm water, and repeatedly raping her in front of their children, three of whom had never seen the light of day. The murder charge arose from the death shortly after birth of one of the seven children he fathered with his daughter. The ailing baby was not allowed...