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...Soon after Siegel and Shuster's Superman appeared, and a year later, Bob Kane's Batman - and, perhaps not coincidentally, right after the first science-fiction convention where Forrest J. Ackerman came dressed as a spacemen, thus inaugurating the pulp tribute costume - a group of citizens donned masks and gaudy couture and called themselves the Minutemen. Not so much groupies as avatars of the fictional superheroes, they spent World War II getting off on doing their truth-justice-and-the-American-way thing. Disbanded in 1944, they reconvened with some new personnel, and by the '60s were important factors...
...whole of Europe would be monumental. To an even greater extent, the well-being of the European Union as a whole depends on the respectable performance of each constituent member. Failure to remain united may breed disillusionment with Western capitalism and leave Eastern Europe dangerously susceptible to Russian influences. Thus, for the sake of national interest and the endurance of the European Union, Western countries must find the means to create a bailout plan for failing countries in Eastern Europe...
...Vaillancourt said. “In the second half of the season, she has been a really important player for us, scoring really important goals and making really important plays all over the ice.”This weekend, the Crimson faces its most important challenge of the season thus far in the final rounds of the ECAC Tournament. Harvard is counting on its second-year standouts to build on their outstanding play of late. If the sophomores continue to show how valuable they are to the current Crimson team’s efforts, they will also put themselves...
...Registrar Barry S. Kane marched on the building and stabbed several security guards with a letter opener, which was marked with the monogram “DGF.” He then released all of the monkeys and led them, as the Pied Piper of Primates, into University Hall. Thus was born the new Harvard calendar...
...mentions Monica Zdrojewski, who has 14 goals on the year.“I’d say we already spend a big chunk of our time with each other,” adds goalkeeper Laurel McCarthy, who has recorded 10 saves in a backup role thus far.In addition to dining together almost every day, the girls even occasionally have movie nights together. Zdrojewski, Devan Kennifer, Lizzie Abbott, and Shannon Purcell all hail from California, and although the future teammates did not get to know each other back in high school, they and fellow freshman Ita Barton-Kettleborough would finally...