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...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...
...investigation mocks any reasonable notion of fair procedure. A board with better training should be able to resolve more cases, but at least it will provide sexual assault victims with their right to an investigation. Such investigations often lead to evidence or testimony that was not available at the outset, and they send the message to potential rapists that they cannot commit violent crimes and then go back to life as usual...
...exercised a single veto. He has occasionally threatened one (on a post-Sept. 11 spending bill, for example) and got changes as a result. But more often he has, in the view of conservatives, caved in too early. On campaign-finance reform, he made it clear from the outset that he would probably sign whatever bill was sent...
...pressing to democratize the PA, the Palestinians themselves were trying to reform the corrupt, authoritarian government run as a personal fiefdom by Yasser Arafat. It was many of those very advocates for good, transparent governance who began the current intifada, which close observers of Palestinian politics interpreted at its outset as a challenge to the politics-as-usual of Arafat and his inner circle. And those advocates have ideas that are profoundly different from Sharon's about what democratizing the PA would entail...
...trailer alone, with its eye-popping effects, sleek and postmodern world and hot-as-hell, upside-down kiss between Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man/Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, is enough to leave us all drooling for more. What the trailer establishes from the outset is that Spider-Man is the man, hands-down...