Word: epicent
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...asked in disbelief. The battle-weary pair ignored the skepticism. Tan and DeSantis took their last triumphant bites at 3:07 p.m, and hugged each other affectionately. At a small table in the middle of airy Cabot dining hall, the two contestants sat in awe of the epic challenge they had just completed. And then, as abruptly as it started, it was over: Tan slowly walked to the shuttle, and DeSantis wandered up to her room to sleep off her twelve chickwiches...
...Readers of movie reviews often think that critics hate the big Hollywood stuff and cherish only the little films about Romanian abortions or Iranian kids. But some of us, this one anyway, knows that there's an American style - best displayed in the big, smart, kid-friendly epic - that few other cinemas even aspire to, and none can touch. When it works, as it does here, it rekindles even a cynic's movie love. So cheers to Downey, Favreau and the Iron Man production company. They don't call it Marvel for nothing...
Despite their defeat at the hands of Miyamoto, the 2008 poll will almost certainly be remembered for the epic battle fought between Colbert and Rain. If 2007's poll - in which Colbert created his own Korean pop video in an attempt to outshine Rain - was a World War I of meaninglessness, 2008 was far bloodier. Colbert mocked Rain on various outlets and pleaded with viewers to vote for him while Rain valiantly fought back, sending Colbert a video taunt that advised him to "keep your day job." Colbert countered by proposing a dance...
...times all year Harvard has caught lucky breaks. In the ninth inning, the Big Green threw four wild pitches, hit two batters, walked two more, and committed an error. In games decided by two runs or fewer this season, Harvard is 3-12.COMEBACK KIDSThe Crimson had an epic comeback in its last Ancient Eight game, but it almost had another big come-from-behind victory in the nightcap of Saturday’s contest. Up 5-0 in the eighth, Dartmouth nearly lost hold of the game when Harvard scored four runs in the bottom of the inning. The highlight...
...behind the mysterious allure of California exist hundreds of thousands of people leading unglamorous, decidedly un-chic, and unnoticeable lives. They are the California we don’t see on TV or hear on the radio, the California that isn’t L.A. gangs engaged in epic shoot-outs or Hollywood starlets prancing extravagantly down Rodeo Drive or high-powered tech start-ups revolutionizing Silicon Valley. They are the abandoned, the alienated, the forgotten peoples of the West Coast. The California we see in the works of author Marisa L. Silver ’82 depicts these people.For...