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...idea for superhero trilogies to follow the formula set down in the Superman films of the late 70s and early 80s. First movie: the hero discovers his secret powers. Second movie: he shares he secret with his girlfriend. The third movie is about how it's not so super being a hero. Success, that cruel muse, threatens to transform him into a corrupt cartoon of his earlier, purer self. Recall that, in Superman III, a blend of kryptonite and tobacco tar split the Man of Steel in half, into good Supe and bad Supe. Christ battles antichrist, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spider-Man Gets Sensitive | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

Even Samberg’s toothy smile turned sour at the mention of Cambridge’s only breakfast-table daily. Turns out Lonely Island’s loyalties lie with a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inside the World of Samberg & Co. | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...their willingness to put their unfinished site on the Web and accept feedback from early users.“I think that their approach of telling everyone is exactly the right way to do it,” says Ruml. “The idea of keeping it a secret is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”Another judge, Christopher A. Thorpe ’98, launched a start-up business as an undergraduate and has since returned to Harvard as a teaching fellow. Thorpe says that Check My Radar’s target...

Author: By Daniela Nemerenco, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Logging On and Finding Love | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...Adams recalls. “[College] came up as just sort of a wish.”In his youth, Adams took up the clarinet. Upon graduating from high school in 1965, he had already mastered the instrument. “It’s a well-kept secret, but the clarinet is a rather easy instrument to master,” Adams adds humbly. Feeling that there was little for him to learn at a conservatory, and urged by parents deprived of college education to build a broad base of knowledge, Adams enrolled at Harvard, having already worked with...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Musical Founding Father | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...UNVEILING THE MYTHWeary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan explains the allure of uncommon studies through her own experiences as a teenager who was distracted by a German poem in the back of her textbook.“It becomes a sort of secret science,” Ryan says of less common fields of study, “some knowledge that you have access to that others don’t.”Head Tutor and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Folklore and Mythology Deborah Foster, who herself studied African folklore traditions, encourages students...

Author: By Abby D. Phillip, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Small Concentrations, Opening Up Big Worlds | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

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