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...play is hapless. But it is roared on in an atmosphere of intensity and passion unparalleled anywhere else in Asia. The enmity between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, the teams respectively of the city's West and East Bengali populations, mirrors the Catholic-Protestant sectarianism of Glasgow's Celtic versus Rangers. It stretches back before Indian independence and is embedded into the very fabric of Kolkata society. Prices for prawn and hilsa, the preferred seafood of each community, fluctuate depending on the results of the clubs' matches. An entire canon of Bengali films, plays and poems surrounds the eight-decade...
...only Nadler to catch the plague: at the age of twelve, his little brother is already a level 70.“One of my best memories with my brother was when we were both at the same level. We went to a player versus player battle and stuck together as a team of two people,” says Nadler, smiling to himself. “Stuff like that is what will keep you coming back.”Similarly, it was the social aspect of WoW that most attracted Miller to the game.“It?...
...September 2005 by her Orange bloc rival, Victor Yushchenko, appears locked in a neck-to-neck race with the Party of Regions (PR), led by incumbent Premier Victor Yanukovych. With 68 percent of the vote counted, Tymoshenko, whose party advocates closer relations with the West, had 32.59 percent, versus 31.62 percent for Yanukovych, considered closer to Russia. Despite the difference at the moment being a mere 0.97 percent, an already triumphant Tymoshenko promised the media this morning that she would face them next time as Premier. However, as more votes come in from eastern Ukraine, the PR's stronghold, Yanukovych...
...some kinds of parallels that one might not initially think of when you think of social science versus science,” Faust said, highlighting the ways in which the social sciences, like the hard sciences, could benefit from sharing resources such as technology...
...service to Russia notwithstanding, wants to open up to the West, albeit not as rapidly as Yushchenko desires. Nor has Ukraine done too badly despite the political turmoil: the economy has grown at an annual rate of 7.5% in the first six months of this year (versus 5.5% the same period last year), says Alla Kovtun, a Kiev-based economist. Its currency stable, and foreign investment keeps flowing in - $3.3 billion from January through August...