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Team CI initially seemed to have a slight edge in paintball ability and was victorious in the first two contests by a noticeable margin. Yet the tide swung dramatically when battle was moved to the Ghost Town stage, an Old West recreation featuring actual two-story buildings. HSS dominated this scenario. “We didn’t need to assert our obvious moral superiority,” said Gowda. “We just wanted to kick some Christian ass. Think of it as payback for the Inquisition...

Author: By Svetlana Y. Meyerzon and Samuel A. Winter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Holy War | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

...full day's work with votes, but they try to get out of town by Thursday evening with the last vote scheduled no later than around 6 p.m. And you can forget Friday for any constructive work; walk around the Capitol and it's a virtual ghost town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legislating? Who's Got Time? | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...Sunflower County, Mississippi, buck’s storyline emphasizes the similarity between the lives of blacks in slavery in the 19th century and as sharecroppers in the 20th century. The narrative is framed by the ghost of the black sharecropper Lincoln Washington (Fred Smith), recounting his own life and death on the cotton plantation of William Brett (Stephen Smith). Brett, frustrated by his lack of success in the bedroom, strongarms Lincoln into the first act of what is to become a litany of sex scenes: “warming up” his wife (Abby Fee) while Brett looks...

Author: By Erik Beach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sexual Power in the Jim Crow South | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...British box-office chart, clocking up more than $3.5 million in its opening Easter weekend. The next two years will see the release of Spider-Man, Men In Black 2, The Hulk, Daredevil and X-Men 2. There are ongoing negotiations for plenty more, including Ghost Rider, reportedly with Nicolas Cage, The Punisher and a Batman relaunch. The comics2film website lists over 200 projects currently ready - or rumored to be ready - for film adaptation. The war of the screen superheroes, with superbucks the prize, is well under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hero Worship | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...turning into a rock-opera Winesburg, Ohio. That's because front man E (Mark Oliver Everett) chooses humor over bathos ("Ma won't shave me, Jesus can't save me," he growls on the superb Dog Faced Boy). Which is not to say he's snide; Friendly Ghost and Woman Driving, Man Sleeping are as sweet as anything in the James Taylor songbook--they're just not saccharine. The lyrics float over an array of power chords, samples, overdubs and scratches--no two songs sound alike--but it's not musical bricolage. Just the best album so far this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Souljacker | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

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