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...millions of Iraqis, it's a familiar concern. The country has been facing its most deadly spasm of violence in a year: last month alone, attacks killed more than 600 Iraqis, many of them Shi'ites targeted by Sunni jihadis bent on sowing civil war. The country's universities have long served as the bulwark of Iraq's secular society, refuges from the sectarian strife that threatens to rip the country apart. But now violence has come to the campuses. A rocket attack on an engineering college in the heart of Baghdad two weeks ago killed two students and injured...
...been world champion of the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL)--the gamer's equivalent of the NBA--three times. Over the next three months, he'll play in tournaments in Brazil, Britain, Sweden, Germany, France and Finland, and all over the U.S. and Asia. Outfits like the CPL are bent on becoming big-time spectator-sports leagues like the NFL or the NBA. After all, Wendel says, football and basketball "used to be just games too. But now they're a way of life." --By Lev Grossman
Feldstein also praised the capitalist market system, in keeping with the conservative bent for which he has become so well-known...
...film is told almost entirely through testimonials, featuring interviews with everyone from a California blue-collar worker who saw his pension fund raided to former Enron VPs. The journalistic bent of the film is apparent in the filmmaker’s acquisition of internal memos, audio recordings and video footage that stand out as particularly worthwhile...
Once arriving at Harvard, Nick cultivated his bent for exhibitionism in the unlikeliest of social settings. “At our freshman study breaks, I dressed up a few times as ‘Bunny the Lifeguard’—bunny ears, a bikini top, and lifeguard thong,” he says of his days in Straus A. “I’d gotten the reputation of being that asshole.” Despite Nick’s offbeat choice of entryway attire, he received tacit encouragement from above. “As ashamed...