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Billings is a vigilante, in his own way. He’s never spent much time doing one thing in particular, preferring to show up, strike and fade away. He never stayed at one job for very long, instead filling in where he was needed.

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Vigilante Travels the Consulting Circuit Alone | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

In what became known as the Maxi-Trials in the mid-1980s, Sicilian prosecutors tried hundreds of Mafia suspects en masse for crimes ranging from murder to criminal association. The sweeping strategy hit Cosa Nostra in the trenches, marking a critical victory for such crusading magistrates as Giovanni Falcone and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet The Modern Mob | 6/2/2002 | See Source »

And he lives in our world, in New York City--not "Gotham" or "Metropolis," a resonant fact, considering the real-life supervillainy his hometown has suffered. Unlike WW II comics' patriotism, Spider-Man's nods to the current war era are more elliptical. The World Trade Center towers were excised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blockbuster Summer: Superhero Nation | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

Lucas may pretend that the Star Wars movies are meant to enlighten us about the degeneration of democracies into dictatorships, but, as you wrote, it is closer to the truth that "the movie extends the franchise's target audience from 12-year-old boys (the action stuff) to 15-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 20, 2002 | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: Imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot...

Author: By An ANONYMOUS Grader, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/15/2002 | See Source »

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