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...ARTIFACT...
...again. This circle-of-life chain was a reminder of what had changed and hadn't, not just in the media but in the audience and the world. Yes, O.J. 1 was a freak show and a painful racial divider--and two people died-- but it was also an artifact of that peacetime boom between the falls of the Berlin Wall and the Twin Towers. Then, at least, we had the luxury of wondering whether we didn't have bigger things to worry about. Today we know we do. And we watch--and cover--O.J. anyway, a dozen years older...
...narrow perspective, and allow for a broader definition of the canon and its place in undergraduate education. Not only would this move it away from an old-fashioned, West-centric viewpoint; it would also teach English concentrators to think critically about the canon itself as a cultural artifact, rather than a set of literary scriptures...
...ARTIFACT...
...equipped with--encased in, really--powerful battle armor. He lives 500 years in the future, at a time when humanity is fighting a group of alien religious zealots known as the Covenant. At the beginning of the first Halo game, the Master Chief crash-lands on a strange space artifact, a planet that's shaped like a ring instead of a sphere and known as Halo. There he slugs it out in a running three-sided battle with Covenant troops and a monstrous, mutating race called the Flood, which happens to be imprisoned there. He also learns about a mysterious...