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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mad Man In The Mask | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...Smith's rank on a Forbes.com list of the most financially savvy people, behind Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman and George Soros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Mar. 13, 2006 | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Win For Plan B | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Design School Chief Draws Fire | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Did Summers’ Faith Affect His Fall? | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

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