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...Saturday to participate in Multiplay 01, Harvard’s inaugural video- and computer-game tournament. The event offered free food and over four hundred dollars worth of prizes, including a Nintendo Wii. It featured tournaments in four games selected by an informal popularity poll: “Super Smash Brothers Melee,” “Halo,” “Starcraft: Brood War,” and “Warcraft: Defense of the Ancients.” Other games were available for casual play. Prizes were awarded to winners of each of the official...

Author: By Sue Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Video Gamers Crowd Lamont, Compete For $400 in Prizes | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

...Piaf as its subject, Olivier Dahan's new film La Môme (The Kid), titled La Vie en Rose in some countries, was virtually assured success. In the first week following its Feb. 14 release, the film attracted over 1.5 million viewers - 400,000 more than the 2001 smash hit Amélie pulled in its first week. The towering billboards are an appropriate symbol of Piaf's cultural legacy. She may have measured a mere 1.47 m, but the full-scale Piaf revival Dahan's film has inspired shows that, decades after her death in 1963, her shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Shadow of a French Chanteuse | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...vulnerable." Salon's Rebecca Traister wrote that, "We need to remember that whatever is happening to Spears right now is happening not for our amusement, but to her detriment." Rosie O'Donnell posted a sympathetic haiku on her blog, saying "britney... my heart breaks; i want to smash those photographers; with something heavier; than an umbrella." A Google search pulls up the phrase "Leave Britney Alone" on 129 blogs and there are multiple online petitions to get the paparazzi off Spears' back. Kristin Scott of Bloggingbaby.com told her readers she understood Spears' behavior as a mom, writing that, "There have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Tide Turning in Britney's Favor? | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...they were once again shut out of most senior government and military positions. With the defeat of Saddam's army in the 1991 Gulf War, Shi'ites saw a chance to rise against the dictator. But they received no protection from the allied forces, and Saddam was able to smash the revolt. By some estimates, more than 300,000 Shi'ites were killed; many were buried in mass graves. For the rest of his reign, Saddam kept the Shi'ites firmly under his thumb. Several popular clerics were killed, including Muqtada's father. Saddam ordered the murder of Sunnis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...action, Clayton changed into a fresh white T-shirt. The road-team camouflage and dry shirt brought Clayton momentum that lasted him through the second set, which he took 6-4, and four games into the third set. Leading 30-0 at 2-2, Lock nicked a Clayton overhead smash just over the net for a fortuitous, match-changing winner. With the momentum now in his favor, Lock held Clayton off with relative comfort. “It’s hard to match Chris’s quickness, and that guy did,” said Harvard coach Dave...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Northwestern Sneaks Past Harvard | 2/11/2007 | See Source »

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