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...full court pressure to force turnovers. “I thought that Vermont’s defense was really good,” Delany-Smith said. “We had to do a lot of junk defenses tonight which I think threw them off, took away their comfort zone and messed them up a little bit.” Despite the Crimson’s defensive efforts, by the end of the first half, the score was 34-33, Vermont. The Catamounts also came out strong in the second half, and gained a four-point lead over Harvard...
...rage-fueled philosophical vision: that man cares only about his self-interest and that life is “nasty, brutish, and short.” Characters self-inflict tracheometries, saw their arms off, murder their compatriots to survive, and still end up dead. “Punisher: War Zone:” Not only does the protagonist get to realize his sadistic fantasies, but the film’s creators realize their own upon the audience, as they cause it all sorts of pain. As USA Today’s reviewer put it: “At one point...
...have pressured their respective governments to take action. The gulf also contains a very profitable tourist route for high-end cruises. On Tuesday, the 246 passengers aboard the cruise ship MS Columbus, owned by the German firm Hapag-Lloyd, were flown to Dubai in order to avoid the danger zone. The secretary-general of the German tourist federation, Hans-Gustav Koch, claimed that in order to cope with the pirates, “We want escorts.” Both the U.S.’s diplomatic initiative at the UN and the EU’s military efforts will...
Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but some blame Obama for the lack of effective satire. Novelist Joan Didion recently told a group of New Yorkers that because of the political wunderkind, America has become an "irony-free" zone. "You know, you're allowed to laugh at him," Daily Show host Jon Stewart quipped in July to an unresponsive audience after several Obama jokes fell flat. (See the top 10 late-night gags...
...split-second decisions or the personal failings to which it has been limited thus far, we have learned little. The inward complicity of the military-industrial complex in creating a situation in which hired guns, American and otherwise, were allowed to operate free of repercussions in a war zone bespeaks the destructive logic and the hubris that have prevailed since the invasion...