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...interest in defending the big-budget summer shoot-em-ups? Are these dynamite-filled popcorn commercials worth the time that we spend watching them? Are they sufficiently transporting to give our imaginations a productive workout? Or would we be better off Netflixing our way through the season’s multiplex doldrums...
There was the stuttering, hesitant offensive performance in the second half that drew anguished cries of “Just shoot it!” from the crowd. There was letting the Terriers (3-6) go on a 5-2 rally to tie the game at 9-9 with just minutes left in regulation. And, with seconds remaining in the second overtime period, there was the breath-stopping juggling match just in front of the Harvard...
Boys today are force-fed these categorical imperatives of manhood in the schoolyard, the backyard and from the greatest teacher of all: the mass media. Boys playing Halo, a popular game for the X-Box game console, for instance—where the objective is to shoot everything in sight—learn that manhood is about power and domination. Television reinforces the lesson, often advertising a violent brand of masculinity. TV shows celebrate hyper-violent male icons like wrestlers, football players and action-heroes, a.k.a. professional killers. Meanwhile, men who don’t put on what anti-violence...
...Crimson showed improvement on Sunday, taking advantage of slightly warmer weather to shoot a 332. The score gave the team a two-day total of 676, placing Harvard 48 shots behind first-place Georgetown...
...black face masks, strap on AK-47s with three or four magazines apiece, grab a few hand grenades or rockets and head for the fringes of one of the 20 Israeli settlements laced into the Gaza Strip. Sometimes they would hit something, often not. "We'd try to shoot settlers or the soldiers guarding the houses. Or we'd fire Qassams at them," he said, referring to the crude short-range rocket called the Qassam II that Hamas began making...