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...there was something else about it, something I really didn't want to admit. I asked Paul Sams, the Blizzard COO, why people played WoW and his answer was simple, if a bit depressing: "How often in your everyday world do you get to feel heroic?" he said. "How often do you get to step into a world and do something big and meaningful? People need an escape from ordinary life. It's just something people need...
...lead her team to a statement 71-68 win over the Big Green, winners of the Ivy League title each of the last two seasons. Her final statistics—22 points, three assists, four rebounds, and three steals—would impress on any day, but became heroic following her illness the day before...
...Gore is being pretty heroic, in standing so tall in the fight against catastrophic global warming. Trouble with that is, I was in three places this week where it is usually cold this time of year - Massachusetts, New York and Chicago - and in all three places people were remarking upon how nice and warm it was. Hard to hate, this global warming. Why can't it be global stinking, or global choking, that we're succumbing to? Then we (You) could feel like rallying behind a bold leader...
...horror movie could have scared so many people away from seeing it as this first major 9/11 film--a meticulous reimagining of the hijacking of one of the planes and the passengers' heroic improvisations to stop it. Paul Greengrass's grueling, ultimately inspiring drama is hard to watch but imperative...
...PHOTOGRAPHY NOW SUSAN BRIGHT Forget twilit still lifes and peachy nudes. The photography in Bright's lively survey of 80 artists who work with cameras has more to do with staged scenes of suburban anxiety, mock heroic tableaux of heavily armed children and the determined contemplation of whatever is enigmatic or unnerving. (There are a fair number of nudes, though none you would think to call peachy.) Thanks to Bright, you also get to enjoy the sight of Kate Moss, above, in a picture by the photo-collaborators Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, holding a lit cigarette between her toes...