Say goodbye to Bruce Banner and Tony Stark, comic book fans. The iconic characters were replaced with a more diverse cast this month. News of Bruce Banner’s demise broke Wednesday. The Hollywood Reporter has the story: Marvel Entertainment’s summer comic book storyline Civil War II has claimed the life of another hero — and it’s
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Clyde Kilby, an English professor from Wheaton College, worked with Tolkien in the summer of 1966. “Tolkien was an Old Western Man who was staggered at the present direction of civilization,” Kilby recorded after a summer of conversations with Tolkien. “Even our much vaunted talk of equality he felt debased by our attempts to ‘mechanize
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Programs about the improbable success of Chile and Estonia already have aired on nationwide TV, and those were joined last weekend by a show about the “sensible nation” of Switzerland. Here’s the 28-minute program. When I first watched the program, I was slightly irked that there was very little discussion of the role of fiscal policy and the importance
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The slaying of five Dallas police officers in the wake of police shootings that left two African American men dead has been a difficult time for America, to say the least. The anguish resulting from these tragedies has been accompanied by a surge of anger, blame, and distrust from people of all races. The country
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A little more than 300 years ago, a man named John Locke rolled out a plan for the well-rounded education of a child. Among other things, Locke noted the crucial importance which parents and teachers must place on writing instruction: “There can scarce be a greater defect in a gentleman, than not to express himself
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