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DIED. Dave Cockrum, 63, comic-book illustrator whose characters revitalized the X-Men in the '70s and helped build the title into a lucrative colossus, spawning toys, video games and a film franchise; of complications from diabetes; in Belton, S.C. Cockrum, who grew up reading Captain Marvel, got his big break inking DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes strip. After moving to Marvel, he created, with writer Len Wein, such X-Men as the weather-manipulating Storm, below, who was played by Halle Berry on the big screen. When asked why he worked in comics rather than another art form...
...brief time on that bright, blue September morning, it seemed that the hidden vulnerability of the American colossus had been laid bare. The desperate decisions of some World Trade Center employees to leap to their deaths rather than burn in the flames, the heartrending phone calls of the doomed passengers on the fateful flights, the apocalyptic tsunami of dust that engulfed lower Manhattan as the Twin Towers imploded and fell--this was America's waking nightmare...
...against Iraq in 2003 was no longer possible against Iran. A U.S. Administration that had once confidently bypassed the U.N. found it had no option but to turn to the U.N. Security Council in the hope that international pressure could disarm Hizballah and keep Iran from going nuclear. The colossus that once bestrode the globe seemed to be stuck in the Middle Eastern sands--and unable to prevent the seemingly inevitable confrontation between Iran and Israel...
...Weld are testament enough to that.Rowing, both on the collegiate and the Olympic level, maintains the winner-take-all element so unique to college sports and so neglected in most of the professional realm. There’s no drawn-out series to watch, no seven-week playoff colossus that dulls the NBA until the Finals. There’s one start, one six-minute race to see who can outlast lactic acid buildup longer, and one hurried chance to get everything perfect. There are no timeouts, no pitching changes, and no substitutions. One chance, and one chance only.And that?...
...referring to my actual birth. In 1987, with bells and whistles, the Ministry of Economy announced the sorpasso: Italy’s GDP had overtaken Britain’s.Since then, however, it has all been downhill. Italian financial scandals, such as the implosion of the dairy colossus Parmalat have made Enron and WorldCom look like sound companies. Whilst American CEOs appear with aplomb in front of a myriad of courts, dubious Italian executives choose instead to run for office thanks to Berlusconi’s help. Not only did the Prime Minister push a law forcing voters to cast ballots...