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...instead of one gives me a better shot at beating down an opposing mage, while spending hours wending through a haunted manse might win me a coveted staff. Also, unlike with old media, my choices affect people around me. I can form guilds, essentially virtual clubhouses, band together to quest for rare breastplate, recite the assorted lore of Vin Diesel or Chuck Norris, or simply hang out in front of the local inn doing the electric slide...
Because the University seals access to presidential search papers for 80 years, the most recent records available date from a very different era: the 1908 quest to replace retiring University President Charles W. Eliot. In that search, the Corporation—the University’s top governing body—selected A. Lawrence Lowell, a member of the Class of 1877 and a popular Government professor...
...shake-up of the German beer industry in the 1980s that inspired Bionade's inventor, Dieter Leipold, then master brewer at Ostheim's Privatbrauerei Peter, to quest for a new quaff. With younger German consumers increasingly choosing imports like Corona and Miller Lite over local beers, Leipold worried about the brewery's future. And there was more at stake than just business: it was family. He lived with the brewery's present owner, Sigrid Peter, now his wife, and acted as stepfather to her sons, Peter and Stephan Kowalsky...
...have caught the very essence of things, so that at 100 I will have reached heavenly mysteries. At 110, every point and line will be living." Monet spent the last decades of his life painting his water lilies, and then painting them again, until he lost his sight in quest of an elusive, transcendent perfection that might best be called Japanese...
...natural-born populist, Ahmadinejad cleverly expanded his support base after his election last year by turning Iran's quest to become a nuclear power into a nationalist cause. His outspoken defense of Palestinian rights, threat to wipe Israel off the map and questioning of the Jewish Holocaust have likewise made him a hero in much of the Muslim world. Coming at a time of dwindling American influence in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, Ahmadinejad's leadership is an emblem of a resurgent Iran that is assuming a role as a major regional power. Until now, his assertiveness has enabled...