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...Academy Awards for his portrayal of the comic book villain “The Joker.” “I think that more and more comic books are catering to the movie industry,” says Billy Tan, a Marvel comic book artist and guest speaker at last Sunday’s Boston Comic Book and Toy Collector’s Spectacular. “Comic books are becoming and more and more popular.” Over 40 comic books have been adapted to film over the past 10 years, many grossing as much...
...Guinea-Bissau Assassination Tit for Tat Joo Bernardo Vieira, the longtime President of this volatile West African nation, was assassinated by army troops on March 2 in apparent retaliation for the killing of a general hours before. The speaker of parliament, Raimundo Pereira, was sworn in as the state's interim President and is required to call elections within 60 days. Since winning independence from Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has been racked by poverty and upheaval, becoming in recent years a key transit point for cartels smuggling drugs from South America to Europe...
...stern defender of the right, he backed Joe McCarthy's search for imaginary Communists and, a month before his death, was ripping at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But sometimes he just got fed up with policies he'd supported; Harvey famously reversed himself on Vietnam, telling Richard Nixon, "Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong...
...years that I speak too quickly, so I should slow down. Then when I slow down, people say, "No, you need to speak more quickly." The content is what's really important to me. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not nearly as good a speaker as the President. And certainly a lot of people in America agreed with me on that...
...Harvard International Review did just that when it released its Winter 2009 issue last night at a soiree in CGIS cafe. Approximately 40 students gathered for the event, which doubled as a symposium, featuring economics professor Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 as the keynote speaker. Friedman touched on the current trend of corporate layoffs of foreign employees and fielded questions about protectionism, government intervention and China’s rapidly growing economy. “The current economic downturn is extremely threatening,” Friedman said during his speech. “People should be aware that...