“Welcome to the ‘Islamic State’ land” not effective in delivery


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Run, do not walk, to ISIS Land.” This is how “Welcome to the ‘Islamic State’ land” begins. The gruesome 69-second video goes on to show some of ISIS’s most graphic footage, depicting everything from militants killing individuals at point-blank range to suicide bombings and beheadings. Set against a backdrop of eerie music, the footage of […]

State Department video gives ISIS a taste of its own medicine


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The State Department recently released “Welcome to the ‘Islamic State’ land (ISIS/ISIL),” an anti-ISIS video mocking the terrorist group’s recruitment strategies. Criticized for featuring grisly and upsetting content, the video is nonetheless a step forward in combatting ISIS and its powerful social media machine. The video is a part of the “Think Again, Turn Away” […]

Trojans sneak by Stanford on late field goal


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Senior kicker Andre Heidari played the role of hero for the second straight season on Saturday, helping the USC football team steal a 13-10 win over Stanford with a dramatic late field goal. Heidari’s career-long 53-yarder came with 2:30 left in the fourth quarter, leaving the No. 13 Cardinal (1-1, 0-1 Pac-12) one last chance to win or […]

Is Joaquin Phoenix a bit too strange for Marvel?


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In the weeks leading up to last summer’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, rumors were swirling like a cloak of levitation around Marvel Studios and its long-rumored big-screen treatment of Doctor Strange, the master of the mystic arts and sometime superhero whose arrival promises to inject Marvel’s ever-expanding cinematic universe with a welcome dose of […]
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