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Each player begins with one army, except for the House’s war minister who begins with 20. Three rounds of army placements, movements, and attacks will be completed every...
...uniquely, is a game of skill and luck - its drama consisting of talent mobilizing its strengths to minimize the workings of mischance. Wisely, I think Hanson (also the director of LA Confidential and 8 Mile) focuses on the game, which is the thing to which all his characters, except Billie, have utterly surrendered themselves. It defines these people and his direction of the game sequences is clear, suspenseful and witty. Alfred Hitchcock used to say that you could make a movie in a telephone booth if you were skillful enough, and a poker table is not much bigger. To concentrate...
Seegars is entreating students to treat the homeless more like humans, but perhaps we should go one step further and remember that there is nothing that truly separates them from us as people except perhaps a few years of unfortunate twists of fate. In emphatically writing about a homeless population that is a static and unchanging “they,” he seems to be defining the homeless as an “other,” inherently different kind of population. “Abject poverty” and “the greatest academic institution...
...addressing this language barrier is why most interdisciplinary initiatives have failed except in joining concentrations that lie within the same tradition area. The combination of history and literature or chemistry and physics are offered as concentrations but nothing joins fields like mathematics and English or history and economics...
...help stabilize Iraq. In Turkey, where the military last week threatened to intervene in a political crisis over the election of an Islamist president, a senior army official recently warned that the Turkish armed forces should intervene against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. Although all of Iraq's neighbors except Kuwait opposed the invasion of Iraq, many are now deeply worried that growing American domestic opposition to the war will force a precipitous U.S. withdrawal that could exacerbate the chaos...