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...North Atlantic Treaty Organization, formed in 1949 to counter Soviet expansion into the heart of Europe, started winning 20 years ago, when the Berlin Wall fell, and with it all those Soviet-installed regimes between Berlin and Sofia. So the old lady, now celebrating her 60th birthday in fine health, should have died a long time ago. When exactly? A fitting year could have been 1991, when the Soviet Union committed suicide. Or three years later, when the last Russian troops pulled out of Central Europe. No more threat, no more alliance...
...article “The 10 Most Influential Video Gamers of All Time” alongside the creators of the web-comic “Penny Arcade” and the folks who modified “Half-Life” to make a game called “Counter-Strike.” But, beyond his hall of fame status in the eSports scene, this competitor has all the hallmarks of a true-blue, larger-than-life sports star...
...About 50 Harvard students and tutors, organized by the Harvard Democrats and the Harvard College Queer Student and Allies (QSA), participated in the counter-protest...
...Wenger said that Harvard’s counter-protest, which will be more of a celebration with live music, will not have an official schedule of events...
...little too much.This well-cast group of boys quickly traps the audience’s attention with their slapstick humor and catchy one-liners; however, they soon prove to be more than a bunch of goofballs. Each one bright and opinionated, they straddle the line between embracing 1980s counter-culture, and respecting the old-world tradition embedded in British society.Fueling their taste for literature, self-expression, and the corruptible purity of art, Hector declares, “Forget Oxford! Forget Cambridge!” only minutes into the first act. He demands instead that they memorize literature and use that...