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Segue to 15 years later and Mr. Incredible and his wife Helen, formerly known as Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), and their three children are attempting to live a normal suburban life under the Witness Protection Program. Bob juggles a potbelly and a mind-numbing job as an insurance claims specialist while longing for the old days; Helen is not willing to give up the peaceful life they have earned. Everything changes when Bob receives a communiqué calling for Mr. Incredible’s help in a top-secret mission on a mysterious island. The mission eventually pulls the entire Incredibles...
...have known what was unfolding outside. "I was not aware," he says. "I did not know my soldiers piled up those captured. This may have been a mistake, but you must understand we had limited trucks and there were a lot of men arrested. Also, if they were normal people?and not fasting or on drugs, as I suspect many of them were?they would probably not have died." The men were taken to the military base at Pattani 150 km away. By the time the convoy arrived about six hours later, 78 of the men in the trucks...
...given Alan a disapproved-of horseback ride at the beach, we can see the danger in pathologizing Alan’s behavior as a reaction to his parents—or even, as the play suggests, as any more pathological than that of a normal, imperfect person...
...Under normal circumstances, Gordon Track and Field Center can only hold 1,500 people, but the Boston Police and Fire Departments agreed last month to make an exception for the Dylan concert. Mahan said he was optimistic the Boston officials would increase that cap by an extra 500, nearly tripling the legal limit imposed by the fire code. Harvard Concert Commission Director Justin H. Haan ’05, who is also a Crimson editor, said before the meeting he was “terribly enthusiastic” about the energy the concert generated...
...several times that a market-driven health-care system can never be efficient. But our health-care system is bureaucracy driven, because of the doctors and health-care companies that benefit from its overuse and inefficiency. Only when the person receiving care is the person responsible for payment will normal supply-and-demand forces come into play and costs be reduced. Insurance is not the answer. It is the problem...