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...familiar Superman motifs in fresh ways. Clark's secret love Lana (Kristin Kreuk) wears a kryptonite pendant that makes him literally weak in the knees when she comes near, and when Clark wears an S on his chest in the pilot, it is painted on him as a sadistic joke by jocks. Super but vulnerable, his is an alter ego you can warm...
...indeed hitting this side of the mountains, closing in on an impressive series of Taliban positions just opposite the Northern Alliance camp at Bagram airbase. But as the week ended they had dropped only half a dozen or so bombs, and the Alliance Commanders were fuming. "It's a joke," said General Said Khel, who commands one of the fronts north of Kabul and will be one of the generals who will lead the advance on the capital, if the attack ever takes place. The raids will have the effect of increasing Taliban morale not destroying it, he predicted...
...geeks in the movie. But put them all together on Soldiers Field, and you have the ultimate band camp—tons of people who are supposed to be entertaining the audience but instead seem to be performing what the average fan can only interpret as one huge inside joke...
...students but on the education that they receive. Harvard’s current undergraduate program has significant room to improve: though the Core Curriculum seemed a radical innovation at the time of its introduction, today the Core program is widely considered an annoyance at best and a cruel joke at worst. Summers noted that “any curriculum, course of study, or form of pedagogy can always be improved,” and we hope that significant improvements of the undergraduate program will come under his administration...
...north tower of the World Trade Center, when he perished in the flames and had his picture beamed around the world, friends back in Egypt were dumbfounded. They looked and looked again at the photos, trying to find the kid they once knew. "To fly a plane, what a joke! Mohamed could hardly ride a bike," says classmate Osama Abul Enein. "He came from an average middle-class background. Mohamed no way could have done that," agrees Ibrahim Salah, 33, a Cairo engineer who knew him in college...