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...clicks of reloading guns and rapid firing echoed in the Quincy Dining Hall. Halo 3, the popular Xbox 360 game, flashed from every screen as it captivated the 60 humanoids present. The room was dim, the tension palpable, and the human faces unmoving. Saturday night’s Halo 3 tournament, hosted by the Harvard Interactive Media Group (HIMG) and the Harvard Distribution of Technology (HDot), welcomed novices and seasoned gamers hoping to display their simulated shooting prowess. “I came here because I wanted to see Master Chief ‘pwn’ everybody...
...rest of the band (which includes two sets of brothers) pushed back and forth against one another to achieve an energy and sonic tension that both offset and accentuated the gloom of love and loss, matching the emotional rise and fall beat for beat...
...ferocity that, at times, verged on psychosis. While her yelling quickly became old, she effectively portrayed her character’s inner rage. Alterman’s performance was touching and powerful not because of how loud she could be, but because of the means by which she built tension between Sara and the audience. Alterman effectively revealed Sara’s cursing and screaming as an attempt to cope with her rape by a classmate ten years ago, and led us to understand how a minor character in one of Sara’s anecdotes could call...
...centuries of history about her. The film’s biggest disappointment lies, ironically, in the plot twist that generated the most buzz—the relationship between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh, adventurer and settler of the New World. His first appearances in court are filled with flirtatious tension, mystery, and bravado, and Elizabeth becomes attracted to his otherworldliness to the point of envy. Yet Owen’s character quickly grows two-dimensional. Besides always presenting the same calm and manly front, Raleigh mechanically offers hopelessly banal pieces of advice to Elizabeth, like “We mortals...
...about, but one thing is for sure: It won’t make the world a happier, more pleasant, or safer place to live. It is the university’s job to provide substance for thought, not spectacle. Breaking social codes by petty name-calling only creates unnecessary tension between people that hinders compromise. In section we don’t name-call to make a point, and neither should a university president. RICHARD KRONFOL ’08 Cambridge, MA October...