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...India's Lagaan moment" - referring to the 2001 Bollywood blockbuster about a fictional cricket-playing village that beat the ruling British at their own game. This was real life, however, and Kolkata erupted in cele-brations, with Hindus and Muslims, poor and rich, all united in anticolonial sentiment. The glory of the moment cemented football's place in the soul of the city...
...that he has just insulted the card traders and hurriedly adds, “I’m sure if I sat down and tried it, it would be fun. But it’s something I’ve never tried,”—a sentiment that could be said about WoW. After all, in the scheme of things, a flying mount and a Muggle aren’t as different as one might think.Just don’t start trading cards, cause that would be weird...
...That sentiment echoes the wishes of many in the Buddhist clergy, who through the newly formed All-Burma Monks Alliance, have called for Suu Kyi's release and, even more dramatically, the junta's expulsion "from Burmese soil forever." "We must not retreat," vows a 23-year-old monk in Rangoon. "If we retreat, we fail." Historically, Buddhist clerics have been a key element of resistance in Burma, from British colonial days through the democracy rallies in 1988. But this time, the monks are not simply adding their moral authority to the movement; they are leading the protests. The shift...
When terrorists kill hundreds of Americans in a Saudi Arabian compound, an lite team of fbi agents led by Jamie Foxx flies in to collar the perps. Director Peter Berg cannily hypes the tension and the sentiment in the only one of the current Middle East political movies designed to appeal to the action crowd. Hard truths are absorbed while stuff blows...
...anti-Coop sentiment furthermore underlines an unjustified sense of entitlement. Students implicitly understand the cost of comparison shopping, of compiling the list of needed books (either via syllabi or illegal note-taking at the Coop) and trolling though sites like Amazon—explaining why many still end up shopping at the Coop. Yet since Crimson Reading had streamlined and greatly expedited bargain hunts, many now find it unreasonable that the Coop has complicated the process by forbidding the collection of ISBNs. In short, if you do not want to undergo the burdens of comparison shopping—sans...