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...advancement of gaming culture. But with a $10 million game-production budget to earn back, it’s clear that whatever aesthetic value the “Gears” ad has, its creation was hardly an avant-garde gesture of “l’art pour l’art.”In this case, the game is already so well-hyped—preorder sales alone were rumored to reach $100 million—that Microsoft can afford to go out on a limb with the ad. “Gears?...
...push toward faith in charity has been the fiasco of fiascos, the one Presidential scandal that could disaffect every demographic. Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Communiter Bona profundere Deum,” or, “to pour forth benefits for the common good is divine.” Maybe we should have left it at that...
...signifiers to extreme levels, Yamazaki tweaks the tropes of girl's manga up to preposterous proportions. Characters don't just cry, for examples, rivers of tears flood out of their faces. In another story, Octopus Girl competes in a beauty pageant. Everything is perfectly cute and delightful until centipedes pour out of a rival's outfit. "Dear God!" marvels Octopus Girl, with a look of deep concern, followed quickly by, "I put those centipedes in her outfit. That's the first bitch down!" Labeled for "mature" readers, but without an ounce of maturity, Toru Yamazaki's pukingly funny Octopus Girl...
...important measure?foreign direct investment?India still lags Asia's other emerging giant, China. India is expected to receive only about 10% of the more than $80 billion that will pour into China this year. No matter. India's companies appear to have decided that if the world won't come to India, they'll go to the world...
...daughters had been snatched away by violence at once so casual and so vicious? How could they endure the anguish unless they were certain that some purpose lay behind their children's murders, that some meaning could be found in immeasurable loss? Those parents would have seen the mourners pour in from all across the nation, would have read the condolences from across the globe, would have watched as Lyndon Johnson announced on national television that the time had come to overcome, would have seen Congress finally pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Friends and strangers alike would have...