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...Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and the Hulk owed their powers to radiation. (In the movie, the radioactive spider that bit Peter Parker is now bioengineered, perfect for the age of anthrax and cloning.) More important, Marvel characters had psychology. They were conflicted and were driven, like Peter Parker, by guilt (Peter is haunted by having inadvertently caused his uncle's death) rather than simple revenge or honor. They didn't always like themselves and didn't always feel like being superheroes...
...were getting food and medicine, and they were singled out and not getting food and medicine?" Added Prince Saud: "Isn't it better to give assistance to the families of these people, rather than to have the hate fester? What is shameful about helping families, unless you believe in guilt by association?" Prince Saud denounced the charge that the Saudi money is helping breed new martyrs. "Does this money, when it goes to the families of the suicide bombers, tell another boy or girl, 'Go kill yourselves, and we will give your family money?' This is ridiculous." But with...
...business model works because Fairtunes holds the cash for four months and takes the interest as a transaction fee. Goyer says older users (over, say, 30) take to the idea faster; they recognize it as an honor system, whereas the younger ones often feel entitled to free music. The guilt factor is more likely to work if users see links to the site while they are enjoying their purloined tunes; to this end, Fairtunes recently made a deal with the hugely popular Winamp music player. Pay up, and, like Goyer, you can have your ice cream...
...help Bush better understand the Russian mind, Rice recently gave him several books, including her favorite - Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. The President is reading it now, but whether a novel about human weakness and the power of guilt will give him any clues on how to deal with his Russian counterpart isn't clear. More than likely, Bush will rely on the same instincts that told him in Slovenia that Putin was a man he could trust. After the visit, Bush aides expect the relationship between the two to grow stronger. Rice goes to great lengths to emphasize that...
...With no luck examining the father, prosecutors turned to alleged admissions of guilt made by Skakel. They told jurors of testimony from from a grand jury inquiry four years ago, family friend and neighbor Mildred Ix said Skakel's father had confided to her that Michael might have been the killer. "He said," Ix testified then, "Michael had come up to him and he said, 'you know, I had a lot of to drink that night and I would like to see, I would like to see if, if I could have had so much to drink that I would...