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Actually it was a big deal. I think the whole thing of Brits working for American comics was a big deal. Because America was like this fabled foreign land. When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty, it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko's Spider-Man fights used to happen in and around. So it's always been this kind of exotic babylon...
Says FFlaherty: "The credit crisis we're facing is the result of unbridled greed. We need to bridle greed." Perhaps when world leaders sit down in Washington to forge a 21st-century New Deal for the global financial system, it may have more than a smattering of Canadian banking know...
...Boston since 2006. Half of the six members are still in high school, and the rest go to college locally. Aucoin said Elephantom’s sound has been compared to styles ranging from Radiohead’s to classical music. There’s more than a record deal in store for these four acts. The winners will also advance to another of competition in the spring, according to Caitlin V. Crump ’10, general manager of Veritas Records.The winners of the fall round automatically qualify for the spring Battle of the Bands, which will pit acts...
...tatters, there was urgent need for action - but Hoover's efforts to reach out to Roosevelt in the name of bipartisan cooperation were dismissed by critics as his trying to reverse the election results and force Roosevelt to agree to an agenda that would have effectively gutted the New Deal. Hoover's defenders, meanwhile, saw him as a "man on the verge of victory," notes biographer Richard Norton Smith, "who had arrested the downward spiral only to see it slip out of control through the irresponsible behavior of his successor...
...points list.“It’s an honor to break that record,” Akpan said. “It’s a record that was held by the guy who the field is named after, so obviously it’s a big deal.”In the 62nd minute, the Crimson struck again. Junior Kwaku Nyamekye took a free kick on the edge of the box that was deflected, and the ball nestled into the bottom right corner.Harvard was not done yet. Stamatis, probably the man of the match, picked...