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...game makes her sick every year,” says Jonathan A. Gatto ’07. “But we armed her and now she feels better.” Gatto is one of the organizers of this year’s Quincy House game of assassin, in which Nerf-gun-packing Quincy residents try to “assassinate” other participants. Versions of assassin have been played at Harvard since at least 1981, when three freshmen organized a game. The rules of the game vary, but participants generally form teams, each of which is assigned...
...particular film, there are certain things that you have to do. You have to have certain kinds of fights. You have to show things. And if you have the capability of not just having blood splatter, but squirting out of someone's neck the way it was in Shogun Assassin, then you do it. You give it to an audience because that's what they're paying their money...
...Opus Dei's attempt to squash what it thinks will be a negative caricature of its own group in the upcoming movie version of The Da Vinci Code. Having failed for months to privately extract a promise from Sony not to actually name the organization behind the self-flagellating assassin in the film, Opus on Monday went public with a letter on its website requesting that Sony add a "disclaimer" before the movie explaining that it is fiction, admonishing that "an eventual decision of Sony in this direction would be a sign of respect towards the figure of Jesus Christ...
...name repeatedly and then--wham!--whaling away at his already bloodied back with an Inquisition-issue cat-o'-nine-tails. It was not an intentionally funny scene. But Heil, who was familiar with the book on which the movie is based, recognized the figure onscreen as the albino assassin Silas, a fanatical, murderous member of a bizarre Catholic group called Opus Dei, and couldn't suppress a giggle. She is a member of the actual Opus Dei. "This is so outlandish," she recalls thinking. "I wish we were that interesting...
...years since the tumultuous climax to the last bitter presidential election in Taiwan?the infamous "March 19 incident," when a gunman fired shots at Chen and his vice presidential candidate, Annette Lu. To the DPP, the matter is over and done with?the case solved, the would-be assassin dead by his own hand. To the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party, the affair still stands as a sham, a political stunt orchestrated by a desperate DPP to win the election (albeit a dangerous stunt?Chen was shot in the abdomen). Two years on, Taiwan's political landscape is still bathed...