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...Undergraduate Council announces the discovery of $40,000 in a forgotten account due to poor accounting procedures in the past. The council then pledges $25,000 in a heroic but unsuccessful attempt to win the student body a student center...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Years of Harvard History: A Timeline | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

PENNSYLVANIA Passengers' heroic efforts sent Flight 93 into the ground near rural Shanksville. The intended target was the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tracking The Terror At Home... | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...little guy at the tail end of the Depression and upended the Nazi concept of the Ubermensch. "There was an enormous desire to see social justice, a rectifying of corruption," says DC Comics president Paul Levitz. "Superman was a fulfillment of a pent-up passion for the heroic solution." Batman, a morally ambiguous, revenge-driven crusader, emerged in 1939, at the outset of World War II, as the darker side of the heroic solution. Then when America entered the war, straightforwardly patriotic heroes like Captain America and Wonder Woman hit Hitler where he lived...

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

...Harrison Ford…yes, this is a strange world) is adorning the cover. Her tan-in-a-bottle is, of course, flawless. Her two-page interview mentions her weight (“89 pounds dripping wet”) about fifty times as though it were some kind of heroic feat...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, | Title: Go Bronze, Young Woman | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...were the beautiful ones whose stories were laced with 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...

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

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