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...KANE and I had a friendly competition going for decades. Whenever he'd talk about the longevity of Batman, I'd ask what he's done lately. Whenever I'd mention a Marvel character, he'd remind me that Batman had been the biggest screen superhero. He was the best kind of friend--always provocative, always fun. He certainly didn't always live by the usual rules. Meeting the ever tardy Kanes for dinner was an adventure. If we were to meet at 8, my wife and I would arrive at 8:30. He'd beat us by arriving...
...made even more skeptical about Ethan's prospects when the ending is considered. In the novella, Ethan and Mattie attempt suicide by sledding very fast into a tree, how this works into the opera remains the show's biggest mystery. When asked about the suitability of the Ethan Frome for opera, Lee Poulis '02, who will make his Harvard debut in the title role, commented that "all opera is based on love." Despite a certain frigidity, Ethan Frome is a beautifully tragic love story...
Eleventh hour? Not quite. The U.S. appears unlikely to strike in Iraq before it has a massive force in position -- and that buildup may be just the thing to convince Saddam to back down. "The U.S. is planning the biggest operation against Iraq since the Gulf War, and you don't start that until you have all your ducks in order," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "You can't afford to start the game prematurely...
...Crimson team scored its biggest win in the quarterfinals where it faced the top-seeded and 10th-ranked team in the nation, Adam and Aaron Marchetti from Virginia Tech...
...biggest difference in the last generation concerning marriage has been the shift in our conception of the role men and women play in society and, by extension, in a life-long partnership. Where marriage used only to necessitate the determination of one life plan (the man's), it now requires the coordination of two life plans. When a woman's career took a back seat to her husband's, a permanent commitment was easier to make at the age of 22 than it is now, for the simple reason that a man would go where his life took...