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...movie, which are kind of immutable - war is hell, the brutalizing aspects of combat - and do it in a contemporary way that reflects the reality of this war, in its tactical reality and also in the psychological reality of it being a volunteer army? Which is something that none of those wars had, so none of those movies dealt with it. To me, those were the two burdens: it had to get to something about the psychology of people who choose to fight, because that's what these guys are - volunteers - and something about the nature of war being...
...None of them looked like me, none were a decade within my age, none really represented me or the people I knew,” Cheung said of the composition of the City Council...
...housemates by fooling us into believing that a recycling drive and an online game of Risk are proof of our superiority to people who live in that place called Dunster. What Harvard students lack in school spirit, we make up for in House spirit. Given that we have practically none of the former, we’re less than eager to let go of the latter, even though physically living in a House isn’t a prerequisite for being really proud that you were randomly assigned...
...proceeded to try each of the ILS building’s five levels, looking for an exit that was not armed with an alarm, but he found none...
...this sport is not altogether different from the popularity of professional wrestling, but there is, in fact, a key difference between the two. Whereas a great part of the fun of professional wrestling stems from the universally acknowledged truth of its theatricality and phoniness, the comforting truth that none of its wrestlers are ever hurt (except emotionally, when they maligned in the skits and costumes that come after each fight), UFC’s compelling quality is its inescapable authenticity...