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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Almost as long as humans have used offensive weapons, they've thought defensively as well. The very first types of armor were animal hides that cushioned the blows of clubs. Chinese warriors in the 11th century B.C. clad themselves in rhinoceros skin; ancient Greek warriors carried round, flat shields of bronze, reinforced with layers of hide and wax. In medieval Europe, knights and lords rode to battle in chain mail, a heavy, fantastically expensive armor forged from thousands of tiny links of steel. By the mid-14th century, advances in technology - namely, the high-velocity crossbow and longbow - necessitated steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Armor | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...underperforming of Duplicity, Roberts' first flat-out starring role in more than five years, has cued epidemic amounts of head-scratching from the industry solons. Is it just that the masses don't want to see sophisticated espionage capers starring, ugh, a girl? For now, let's not put the burden on Julia. Best to blame the title, which promises the average moviegoer nothing except a problem pronouncing it to the multiplex ticket seller. Only two live-action films with one-word, four-syllable titles have ever grossed more than $100 million total; and the two that did, Phenomenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Box Office: Fast & Furious by a Mile | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...field in par-3, 4, and 5 scoring, averaging 3.32 shots on par-3s, 4.32 on par-4s, and an even 5.00 on par-5s. Shuman and Christensen tied for second in number of pars with 22, while Shore tied for the lead in par-3 scoring, shooting a flat 3.00 on par-3 holes. Proving it could compete with Yale— which, according to Mayer, is shaping up to be the frontrunner of the league—and Dartmouth, the Crimson now anticipates next weekend’s Princeton Invitational at the Springdale Golf Club...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Tops Yale Spring Opener | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...guys were really deflated from yesterday, it took a lot out of them, and we were all pained from losing something that was that close,” said Fish. “We came out at the doubles flat [and] we deserved to get beaten...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Splits Weekend in Closely Contested Battles | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...supposed to amplify an effect by presenting it in an unusual or grotesque way. The offhand presentation of violence and brutality certainly constitutes a form of defamiliarization, but the effect, conversely, is to sap the book of any real emotional power. Such descriptions abound in the novel in a flat, monotonous way, and the purely grotesque, after intense repetition, has neither comic nor dramatic value. Thus even those scenes which ought to be most powerful have little impact, as with the death of Senyor, a character of focus for some odd pages: “The blacksmith gave the word...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Death Springs Eternal, But Not Much Else | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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