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...Members of the alliance said that the game drew them closer together. According to Matthew D. O’Brien ’07, second-in-command for Quincy, the members of the three war councils became good friends. “None of us really wanted to back-stab the other. It was that simple,” he said. Participants said the game also built spirit within individual Houses. “I love the fact that we rose out of the ashes—a lot of people expected us to die within a few turns...
...corner spot on a concrete floor. That was to be his living quarters. Basic articles like toilet paper, soap and razors were not provided. There was no toilet or shower and he bathed by throwing cold water over his head. Health services were geared mostly toward treating stab and gunshot wounds, he said, unsure why he and his companions had boils forming on their skin...
...into free trade deals? These final questions should be second-nature to Kerry, a long-time member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.Like advertised, the Kerrys’ book is a fine complement to the work of Gore: it provides a broader discussion of environmental issues and makes a stab at solutions, albeit a weak one. Had the Kerrys done as systematic, intellectually rigorous a job on solutions as they did on problems, they would have created a book with a serious roadmap for where the U.S., and the world, need to go. And that, unlike the book they produced...
...last effort, the mordantly witty 2005 horror pic The Devil's Rejects, revealed the metal singer/director's knack for coaxing a certain grisly charm out of his homicidal antiheroes and evoking an unexpected creepiness out of the sun-bleached California desert. Now the horror auteur is taking a stab at Michael Myers, the masked psychopath from John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween, which Zombie is retooling for an August release...
...recent national poll gave Sarkozy 31.5% backing, against 24% for his Socialist rival Sgolne Royal (who, sinking in the polls, took her own stab at identity politics, suggesting in March that all French citizens should learn La Marseillaise). To some in Saint-Gilles, Sarkozy's allure is in his electability. "I'm voting for Sarkozy not only because I think he truly believes these policies are necessary," confides a retired Saint-Gilles farmer and past Le Pen voter who identifies himself only as Andr, "but also because Sarkozy has a far better chance of winning and applying them...