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...some kind of sadness, heroes like Rogue, Phoenix, Wolverine and Cloak and Dagger. The best kind of superhero struggles with a crippling weakness, a desire he/she can never fulfill, or, like Spider-Man, a tragic past that motivates his heroic deeds. Spider-Man fights criminals because they killed his dear Uncle Ben. So swoon, people, swoon. To the relief of comics-fans everywhere, director Sam Raimi seems to understand this essential appeal Marvel’s beloved frontman. In all likelihood, Spider-Man will explode in a mélange of all things stunning, wowing, even endearing. I don?...

Author: By Stephanie L. Lim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Along Came a Spider | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

...college, he focused on those dealing with authority, while he now focuses on the first commandment, which demands unconditional love. To college students today, he says his book can be very useful because college is “discovering for yourself what values you hold most dear and what you want to stand for…this book can be a very useful tool in helping anyone think about who and what is important to them...

Author: By Debbie B. Doroshow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ripped Off by Mother Teresa | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

...others around Massachusetts, was cobbled together from residents of the community, 144 in total. Each member took this oath in order to join: “We trust in God that, should the state of our affairs require it, we shall be ready to sacrifice our estates and everything dear in life, yea, and life itself, in support of the common cause.” Today, rather than simply joining the band, applicants must be sponsored by members to gain admission. Now membership is capped at 77, to remain true to the number who fought on Lexington Green on April...

Author: By Jessica S. Zdeb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Shot Heard 'Round the World Is Still Ringing In My Ears | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

Dorit Seideman's daughter Yael, 7, had been learning about the biblical Pharaoh before the Passover holiday earlier this month. Yael's schoolteacher assigned her to write a letter to Pharaoh. "Dear Pharaoh, please come over for coffee," she wrote. "I'd like to ask you to bomb the Palestinians." Seideman was appalled. "Do you really want to kill them all?" she asked. "No," said Yael, "only the bad ones." Right now Israel's official policy is in line with Yael's letter, and that's disturbing to Seideman, who campaigned for the Peace Now movement until the birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The War Hits Home | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...DeLay gives few foreign policy speeches and when he does they're usually on issues the Right holds dear, like sanctioning China for human rights abuses or maintaining the embargo on Cuba. DeLay aides say their boss worried that the White House was getting too much pressure from Israel's enemies in the Arab world, many of whom were demanding that Sharon lift his military siege of the occupied territories. "DeLay wanted to draw a line in the sand" and stake out the position of Republican conservatives in the crisis, said one of his staffers. "The White House needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro-Israel Lobby Takes a Right Turn | 4/23/2002 | See Source »

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