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...relationship between the three ‘blood-brothers’ in “The Warlords” is a bromance of epic proportions. General Pang (Jet Li), Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro), and Er Hu (Andy Lau) travel together, share each other’s space, fight over women, and defend one another like characters in a typical Judd Apatow film. Their bromance is complicated, however, by the fact that they are three of the most powerful warlords in late-Qing dynasty China, and their brotherly spats result in starvation, massacre, and wholesale destruction of entire cities rather than...

Author: By Araba A. Appiagyei-Dankah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Warlords | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...second project, students designed modern-day mosques showcased through models or videos, while the final project will involve writing a love lyric or narrative epic based on Persian and Arabic examples...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed Promotes Creative Classwork | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...before the process has officially begun. In addition, given Republicans' recent opposition to using the filibuster in judicial confirmations and Democrats' still strong 59-seat Senate majority, conservative politicians who brandish the court card would run the risk of whipping their base into a lather in anticipation of an epic fight with the President, only to watch a new Justice seated with little struggle shortly before the midterms in November. (See four myths about Supreme Court nominees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the GOP Isn't Spoiling for a Supreme Court Fight | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...even they ultimately had no answer to the duo of Ty and Pat, who rode their underdog momentum all the way to the championships while keeping everything but their first names a secret. In the last seconds of the epic 10-cup finals, Ty and Pat, down three cups to one, made three straight shots to clinch their first title in a massive upset. They declined to comment...

Author: By James Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pong Participants Soberly Seek Glory | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...Kyrgyz themselves are of Turkic stock, one of the many confederations of Central Asian nomadic tribes that coalesced into an ethnic group over generations of war and migration. Their founding national myth is the Epic of Manas, a 500,000-line poem that is 12 times the size of The Odyssey and claimed by some to be one of the few examples of oral literature preserved in its original form for nearly a thousand years. It tells of a heroic warrior, Manas, as he united the Kyrgyz and smote enemy invaders upon the steppe. It's a tale that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Kyrgyzstan: Behind the Upheavals | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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