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...remember my first viral video. The year was 2001, and I was a fresh-faced teenager with my first high-speed Internet connection. Someone showed me a Flash animation featuring 1980s Japanese video-game images repurposed into a techno-music montage. Or something. I'm not really sure. I didn't understand All Your Base Are Belong To Us then, and I don't understand it now, but I can't deny its Internet significance. All I remember is that people wouldn't stop saying "Somebody set up us the bomb" for at least a week...
...flash poll” taken by the Business School’s MBA Career Services in mid-February showed that 90 percent of second-year Business School job-seekers had received offers—down just slightly from a year ago, according to Managing Director of MBA Career Services Jana P. Kierstead. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...streets, as though it would just as soon not touch down with the locals. Those streets, after all, were so authentically funky that some of them had served as locations for the film version of West Side Story. When you consider that the Jets and the Sharks used to flash their switchblades not far from where the Metropolitan Opera now stands, it's amazing that the island of culture didn't come with a moat and a drawbridge. (See 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours in New York City...
Masked teenagers lob bricks at police shields, middle-aged women wave banners and chant slogans against repression, while police tanks fire water cannons into rowdy crowds. These images may evoke anti-globalization protests at some high-powered economic summit, but in northern Mexico, they're the latest flash point in the nation's incessant drug...
...Khmer Rouge took root in Cambodia's northeastern jungles as early as the 1960s, a guerrilla group driven by communist ideals that nipped the periphery of government-controlled areas. The flash point came when Cambodia's leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, was deposed in a military coup in 1970 and leaned on the Khmer Rouge for support. The prince's imprimatur lent the movement legitimacy, although while he would nominally serve as head of state, he spent much of the Khmer Rouge's rule under house arrest. As the country descended into civil war, the Khmer Rouge presented themselves...