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...strangers over the Internet on an intricate 3-D map (representing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, say, or the city of Hue). Your aim is to capture as many flags and annihilate as many opponents as possible. But in this game, jungle-shrouded snipers are among the features that heighten the anxiety level. The game's best moment comes when you launch a chopper attack to the strains of Ride of the Valkyries--a tip of the hat, of course, to Apocalypse...
...reason why it’s such a pervasive problem. Sometimes it’s because the actor is untalented, sometimes it’s because of bad directing and sometimes it’s because the actor and director are trying to emphasize a theme or heighten the work’s atmosphere. But not many actors can build a compelling character out of such stuff; for every Tobey Maguire that succeeds, there are fifty Keanu Reeveses that fail...
...phone in the sports bag sounded an alarm, according to the Madrid daily El Pais. When investigators looked inside for the phone, they found it attached to two copper detonators, which were connected to 22 lbs. of a gelatinous dynamite. The bag was stuffed with nails and screws to heighten the bomb's destructive power. For some reason, the device did not detonate. Instead it became the biggest break yet in the hunt for those responsible for the massacre in Madrid...
...termbill fees—the average fee elsewhere is $201, they claim. But critics rightly recognize that many of these schools are far better equipped to handle the larger budgets, with far more students working actively to organize campuswide events. And while we are confident that more money would heighten the profile of council events, which in turn would attract more committed volunteers to help organize them, we worry that the council is unprepared structurally to handle a threefold expansion of its budget. For some time, council members have been calling for more substantial structural reforms; these changes should...
...jury of the WTC memorial, as one of its most prominent members, Maya Lin, famously had her big break when she won the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial competition as a Yale architecture student. Although Walker brings expertise to the table, his role has been to heighten the virtues of Arad’s design that jurors recognized from the outset...