Word: epicent
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...Nasar's gallery in a show by NCA graduate Khadim Ali. Raised in Quetta, the son of Afghan refugees, Ali taught himself to draw using charcoal scavenged from bakeries. His artistic inspiration was his family's only book: an illustrated copy of the Shahnameh, a 10th century Persian epic revered in Afghanistan. The Taliban co-opted the poem's hero, Rustam, as a propaganda figure, telling Afghans that they, like him, were winged heroes endowed with arrows to defeat evil. Ali's phantasmagoric show, "Rustam," features a devil-figure with horns, wings and the unmistakably Pashtun features of many Taliban...
...Trainer, president of the business-valuation firm New Constructs. Google went public amid widespread skepticism, but Facebook has been anointed by its boosters as the next Google, despite MySpace's bigger audience and deeper pockets. As is always the case with the Web, some investors are going to make epic amounts of money. Others...
...This is shaping to be another performance liek Princeton last year (18 of last 2o for Hous, taking over) 13:30: Lin can jump out of the roof, btw. 13:10: Lin finally makes a bucket, oh man, five point game, 53-48. This would be an epic comeback. Momentum is there, travelling on the other end, Crimson ball down 5. 12:20: Amaker is not happy with Harris. He's been sitting for over four minutes with only 2 fouls. Cunningham makes 1 of 2, 54-48. ZOMBIES!! On the court!! Oh, woops, it's just the lifeless ballboys...
...giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, "I am Beowulf, and I'm here to kill your monster." That's how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a movie hero. Deep-voiced announcer: "He's big. He's bold. And he's boastful... He's Beowulf...
...tour in Hopkins’ final game.“All we talked about all season is how the perfect way to go out would be to score a touchdown, and the only way we’re going to get on ESPN would be to do this epic air guitar solo, and hopefully not get a penalty,” Breaux said.—Staff writer Brad Hinshelwood can be reached at bhinshel@fas.harvard.edu...