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...come: film versions such game franchises as God of War, Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid, Lost Planet, Prince of Persia, EverQuest, Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, the blessed Sims and, yikes, PacMan. (Can't wait for other retro movies based on the earliest video games: Frogger, Space Invaders and - some French minimalist director'll do it - Pong...
...several decades has underwritten prosperity not only for developed countries but for many other nations as well--notably China, India and Brazil--lending today's world economy degrees of diversity, dynamism and resilience that simply did not exist eight decades ago. The abandonment of the gold standard has opened space for countries to adjust their monetary and fiscal regimes without fear of deflation or devaluation. And a landscape populated by an array of multilateral institutions like the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO has nurtured habits of international economic cooperation in times of crisis, as witnessed by the recent...
...graduation stigma. For an activity so routinely ridiculed in pop culture—see Ed Helms’s character on “The Office,” for instance—a cappella attracts hundreds of new students each year. Despite a burgeoning scene that taxes resources, space, and perhaps the patience of Harvard’s audiences, the sense of community found in rehearsals like this one is what has kept a capella enduring for decades...
Groups are also forced to compete for practice space, off-campus gigs, and even songs to perform. The co-ed groups use an online a cappella database to prevent problems that may arise from two groups learning or arranging the same song. Mallory says the database was created about five years ago to help resolve the common dilemma that arises when groups start to overlap in genre and style...
...asked him where the parks were, and he replied that there were none. But where do people play? I wondered. This was the question that remained after “Place (Village).” Where do people play here, in these facsimiles of houses? There is no space between them for a community. And this, more than the absence of people and their technologies and the the sun that lights their world, is what disturbed me. This piece is a collage of houses. These houses are no longer just magazine photos on a page, as those that appear...