Word: supermans
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...above all other superheroes?I really liked the design of Batman. I liked the concept. There's a lot more you can do with Batman than most other superheroes. Like Superman. Superman's basically an omnipotent god. Batman is the flip side of that, which is a lot easier for people to relate...
...money is to politicians what kryptonite is to Superman, but Mandelson was given the antidote to his latest exposure by Rothschild. In a startling intervention, Rothschild sent a letter to the Times of London newspaper that instantly moved attention away from Mandelson's links with Deripaska and onto the hapless Osborne. According to Rothschild, Osborne and Andrew Feldman, the chief executive of the Tory party, had met with Deripaska and had discussed with him a possible donation to Conservative coffers...
...reserve for basketball or baseball. Sporting a coxcomb of spiky hair and stylish sideburns, Lin goes by the nickname Super Dan - pronounced "dahn," not like the shortened version of Daniel. After striking gold, the 24-year-old circled the stadium with a Chinese flag fluttering from his shoulders, like Superman with his cape...
...first 36 medals in the Beijing games; swimmers in Speedo's LZR suits are breaking world records right and left. It obviously helps when you have Michael Phelps in your stable. Still, put one of these new suits on and you get a feeling of strength - a psychological superman cape. Even though I swim competitively, at first I didn't understand all of the hoopla surrounding the swimsuit controversies at the Games. Swimmers have been demanding the $550 Speedo suit, even to the point of breaking their contracts with TYR, which had great success in the Athens Olympics...
...mention of religion in the stories. "When you read through the books, there is no mention of Islam, Allah or the Koran," says Mutawa. "I used an Islamic archetype, but the actual stories don't show any Islam, because they are based on values that we all share." Even Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, he says, "are based on religious archetypes. Like the prophets from the Bible, they are all orphans. Superman left his parents on the planet Krypton, and Batman sees his father and mother gunned down in front...