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...definitely started with a good idea. The man who had it was Alan Moore, probably the greatest writer in the history of comic books. In 1982 Moore--who also wrote Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen--began publishing an almost unbearably dark series of comic books set in a dismal, dystopic future Britain ruled by an oppressive Orwellian government. V for Vendetta starred, instead of a superhero, a bitter, brilliant, at least half-insane resistance fighter known only as V, whose face was permanently hidden behind a grinning mask that, if you're English, you recognize as the face...
...Smith's rank on a Forbes.com list of the most financially savvy people, behind Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman and George Soros...
...areas this means that a lot of women who would have had to drive for miles and miles to find Plan B will be able to find it at their local Wal-Mart," says Sharon Camp, founder of the company that developed Plan B and now president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health research group. Because the drug's effectiveness drops 50% every 12 hours and is limited to the first 72 hours after unprotected sex, proponents of Plan B say any obstacle--a doctor who is unavailable to write a prescription or a pharmacy that...
...understand that the designers in the school may have been disappointed that a political scientist was named as dean. But I think Alan tries very hard to bridge the designer, non-designer gap,” said Gómez-Ibáñez, who is the Bok professor of urban planning and public policy...
...Summers’ supporters—most notably Wisse and law professor Alan M. Dershowitz—have claimed that the divestment petition was an important factor fueling the Faculty’s anger with its president...