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...entries--seems a natural. On the printed page, comic-book action hero is an oxymoron; a man can fly only in the reader's complicitous mind. Films make the fantastic real; they are, after all, called motion pictures. In the new Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood arachno-human can execute some cool moves as he trapezes above New York City. In these aerial scenes (a combination of acrobatic stunt work and digital derring-do), Spidey zooms and glides and quadruple-somersaults like a one-man Cirque du Soleil troupe, and the movie and the audience soar with...
...errors. McGee later got permission to add more subjects than the original 25 he had applied for. According to the OHRP investigation, 11 of McGee's first 18 subjects didn't meet eligibility criteria. Like most of the key oversight decisions, this one actually came directly from the IRB chair, Daniel Plunket, who often did a one-man "expedited review" without consulting the rest of the board. James Robinson, Plunket's lawyer, insists "there is no evidence" his client "took any action...
Despite Duke’s early lead, the Crimson entered halftime trailing only 6-4, thanks mainly to the one-man war waged by senior Derek Nowak against Duke in the first half. Nowak scored Harvard’s first goal—off a feed from rookie Mike McBride—to narrow the score to 3-1. Later, after the Blue Devils had struck twice more to push their lead to 5-1, Nowak scored again to keep Harvard’s hopes alive...
MEDFORD, N.J.—Note to Patrick Harvey, Harvard’s one-man scoring machine this season: help...
...undergone every sort of pain imaginable. He’s been tossed over waterfalls and blown to bits. Then there is the usual assortment of beatings and shootings that are par for the action-hero course. One thing’s for sure: Arnold always comes back. He takes a licking and keeps on kicking. Everything is fodder for this one-man Bosnia: He blasts his way to salvation, leaving more corpses in his wake than an Ebola epidemic. Villains of all stripes are dispatched with terse one-liners. “Consider that a divorce...