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...stand on major issues. We'll never know, because mainstream superheroes cannot be invested with that level of political awareness. They always have a secret, over-riding agenda, spelled out in the earnings reports of their corporate masters: sell product. This is the "ick-factor" that makes some people roll their eyes when they hear about mainstream superheroes taking on meaningful subjects. A whiff of exploitation follows Spider-Man and his ilk wherever they go. Using him to comment on September 11, for example, would be as gross as using Snap, Crackle...
...post “would be Rubin’s job for the asking—if Rubin wants it,” Henderson says. But the former Goldman Sachs chief does not have a Ph.D. in economics, and “he may not want to roll up his sleeves and muck around in the data for 14 years”—the length of each of the appointed Fed board member’s terms. In that event, a Democratic president might try to curry Rubin’s favor by appointing Summers, Rubin?...
...lower expectations set the stage perfectly for the comeback, the resounding send-off. Just as Springsteen’s chart-topping The Rising re-established The Boss as one of the greats in rock-n-roll, so did Stefanchik reassert her gifts...
Back at the IOP in Cambridge, the climate was considerably warmer as Harvard College Republicans gathered to watch poll returns roll...
...summer before his senior year, Borowitz and the Lampoon sent out a special prank issue of The Crimson to all of the incoming freshmen, in which they described college life as one filled with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The description was so vivid and disconcerting for many of the prefrosh and their parents that University Hall was flooded with angry phone calls and threats of transfers to Yale...