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Since then, wrestlers’ identities have not been as closely linked to nationality. Plot schemes have grown more complex, and the line between good characters and evil characters has become blurred. Drawing from his analysis of wrestling, Cantor postulates that “the decline of old nationalism may be linked to a new kind of creative freedom...
From that moment in eighth grade when Johnny Nitro first pranced across my television screen, I knew I had begun a life-long obsession with something truly stupid. Any entertainment where dry ice and theme music are essential to plot development is not the kind of thing one discusses in polite company. But still, I must confess: I love professional wrestling. To this day, I maintain a crush on The Raven, a scrawny little Gothic dude who always won the “Cage Matches” by beating his opponents over the head with metal folding chairs...
Even before Harvard undergraduates had settled into their dorms for the start of the fall semester, 18 of the most active professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) gathered for a summit at Boston’s Harvard Club to plot a course for the year to come...
...Karin Slaughter: Sometimes when I'm thinking about how I'm going to do a plot, how a story's going to turn out, I get a little nervous about it. But ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much...
After the 2002 bombings, Indonesia arrested several foot soldiers of the conspiracy and sentenced a prominent cleric to a short prison term for inspiring the attack. (The CIA caught the plot leader in Thailand in 2003.) Jakarta, however, has not been able to capture two key plotters: Azahari bin Husin and Nurdin Mohammed Top, among the chief operatives of Jemaah Islamiah, a jihadist group linked to al-Qaeda. The two are also suspects in subsequent attacks in Jakarta, on the Marriott Hotel in 2003 and the Australian embassy a year later, which killed a total of 23. Azahari is allegedly...