Word: smashingly
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...community of Smash devotees at Harvard is a small and fiercely competitive one. Smash, of course, is Super Smash Bros., a best-selling multiplayer Nintendo 64 game. Not content simply to play among roommates and friends, William O. Gallery ’04 and Peter F. Epstein ’04 helped organize a Smash tournament last Saturday to award Smash-derived bragging rights to one smasher. “We had three groups of people that all claimed they were the best Smash players in the school and we all wanted to settle the score,” Epstein...
...Smash, released for Nintendo 64 in 1999, pits well-known characters from a variety of classic Nintendo games against each other in a free-for-all melee. Breaking with standard Nintendo narrative form, Luigi uppercuts Kirby, who in turn spiral-kicks Mario. Up to four human competitors can man the controls in this gruesome battle...
Often, and particularly under the influence of alcohol, the line between Smash and real life can be blurred, as players take out their gaming failures by destroying controllers, tossing chairs against walls and occasionally physically assaulting their opponents. But on Saturday, everyone’s mind was on victory—the keg in the corner of the room remained untapped until the last kill...
...more radical movements that view the Wahhabi kingdom as a U.S. protectorate that must be destroyed. In the first half of the 1990s, radical fighters sought to repeat the Afghan victory by making jihad in Bosnia, Egypt and Algeria. As the host states took repressive measures to smash them, however, these militant groups saw their support from the masses decay. By 1997 a number of exiled leaders of Egypt's al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Group--responsible for the assassination of foreign tourists, native Egyptian Christians known as Copts, police officers and politicians--had come to recognize violence...
...Pakistan, which had long been a principal hub for militants, armed Sunni extremist movements had enjoyed the complicity of successive governments. But General Pervez Musharraf has decided to smash these movements in exchange for strong backing by the U.S. It will be a long, hard haul. As the killings of American journalist Daniel Pearl and 11 French engineers in Karachi demonstrate, General Musharraf is not yet out of the woods--especially given Pakistan's endemic state of cold war with India over Kashmir. But one year after Sept. 11, Southwest Asia has neither exploded nor risen up at the instigation...