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...there's another reason you wouldn't mistake Concrete for any other superhero. Chadwick, and not some corporation, owns Concrete, allowing the character to take positions on real issues. When, during a scene in The Human Dilemma, an interviewer asks Concrete if he is pro-choice, "You bet," is the unequivocal reply. The scene startled me into thinking about where other characters stand on major issues. We'll never know, because mainstream superheroes cannot be invested with that level of political awareness. They always have a secret, over-riding agenda, spelled out in the earnings reports of their corporate masters...
...earliest memories of the Yard jibe with the way I sometimes see it in old woodcuts: quiet, orderly, stately in its serenity—with the modern addition of the tourists who come to admire the red brick and gather around John Harvard’s foot. I bet this official version of the Yard is the one that sticks in the minds of most visitors. But it’s not the version of the Yard I’ll remember...
...finding value in the rental market. With so many people buying homes in the past few years, landlords in certain frothy markets, like San Diego, Miami, Las Vegas and Washington, have gone begging. Not a few are collecting less in rent than they are paying in mortgage expense. Their bet is that in the end, rising values will make up for their losses. And it may work out for them. But for now their gamble is giving tenants the upper hand. In the San Francisco suburb of Menlo Park, Patrick Killelea, 39, rents a two-bedroom house...
...America's "best friends abroad." Many Americans don't yet see the corrosive effects of this injustice, viewing Guant?namo as a necessary evil in a grim but vital war against the people who brought down the Twin Towers and beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. But I'll bet Christopher Hill gets it. Hill is the U.S. diplomat now charged with trying to get key negotiating partners in line to deal with North Korea and its nukes. One of the most troublesome U.S. allies is South Korea, which is in the midst of a kiss-and-make-up lovefest...
...phone isn't, but I bet Brent's is [Brent Maurer is her press rep]. All I know is that we're going to do our best to make sure that I'm not so distracted that I can't do my job, which is to drive a race car. Because nobody is going to want to do a story if I don't do well. We all know the important parts here...