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...Daniel L. Goodkin ’06 says he decided to quit playing online poker last school year, and his reasons for doing so read like a full catalogue of the dark side of online poker, a game he calls “entirely anti-social, emotionally risky, and potentially consuming...
...VOLUME THREE In this dark, tense, terrifically grownup British spy series, the wiliest enemies are often on the same side as the good guys. As the third season opens, British agent Tom Quinn (the steely Matthew Macfadyen) has been set up in the assassination of the head of the British military, allowing rivals in the government to launch a political takeover of the MI-5 security service. In many ways, it resembles 24--the subterfuge, the personal entanglements, the willingness to kill major characters--but MI-5 is less pyrotechnic and more cerebral. The good guys harbor doubts and make...
...title of “Knock: or the Triumph of Medicine” may imply an endorsement of healthcare, this Loeb Mainstage show is anything but. In its portrayal of a sinister doctor who spreads disease instead of curing it, “Knock” explores the dark underbelly of modern medicine, suggesting that instead of being “scared to death,” the saying might be better as “scared to lasting sickness...
...stalwart passengers: "We spent so many hours throwing our trays around and bleeding and screaming and crying and praying, and throwing up and peeing ourselves, and trying to imagine every possibility of what these people were going through. It was an environment where we could go to these deep, dark places. But the saddest thing about it was that finally we could wash off our makeup and come out of those places...
...means that the passengers on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, of course, could not come out; they crashed and died, along with the hijackers, in a field near Shanksville, Pa. But there are many Americans for whom the dark place of a movie auditorium is a last refuge from reality. The trailer for United 93 has upset viewers with its gritty evocation of that day, especially a shot of the plane hitting the second tower of the World Trade Center. Audiences who wouldn't flinch at slasher movies and serial-killer thrillers have shouted back at the previews...