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...lives of superheroes. Eleanor (Abigail Gray) likes to rewrite love stories into tragedies--"Or, if they're already tragic but in a really noble way, I rewrite 'em so they're squalid and bitter." What's keeping this perfect pair apart? Only Michael's obsession with his heartless ex-girlfriend, Lisa (Erica Mitnick), who haunts his Carnegie Hall fantasies, asking steamy questions like, "Who was the first comic book character to have interdimensional sex?" In real life, she's been paying him weekly visits to reclaim possessions ever since they broke up. She took back all of her own stuff...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Super Heroes, Super Sex | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

Dean Lewis and the house masters must work much harder to combat the depressing and illegally ubiquitious presence of alcohol in Harvard life. Their recent letter overemphasizes the costs of addiction and punishment, continuing a fruitless, heartless crusade to scare students out of drinking...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Letter's Not Enough | 10/16/1996 | See Source »

Familiar partisan campaign images are the norm in the 10 weeks preceding the Nov. 5 election. Kerry is painting Weld as heartless, attempting to capitalize on the high negative ratings of prominent national Republicans...

Author: By Rick M. Burnes, | Title: Kerry, Weld Drift Toward Center in Senate Race | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

Familiar partisan campaign images are the norm in the 10 weeks preceding the Nov. 5 election. Kerry is painting Weld as heartless, attempting to capitalize on the high negative ratings of prominent national Republicans...

Author: By Rick M. Burnes, | Title: Kerry, Weld Drift Toward Center in Senate Race | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...novelists like to stereotype American entrepreneurs as single-minded and heartless? Perhaps because so many are. Herman Melville set the tone in 1857 with The Confidence-Man. Mark Twain later brought the national style of go-getting to popular perfection in Huckleberry Finn. An adult rereading of that masterpiece reveals a hierarchy of hustlers, from runaway slave Jim and his fortune-telling hair ball to the outlandish charlatans calling themselves the King and the Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: TRUMP, THE EARLY DAYS | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

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