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...public school, a Georgia rock band and, as of this week, a Bay Area civil-service building named for him. The first openly homosexual city supervisor in the U.S., he organized gays into a potent political force. Then there are the movies. Bryan Singer, director of X-Men and Superman Returns, is completing a Milk documentary, The Mayor of Castro Street. Today we get Milk, a hurtling, minutely researched, close-to-irresistible biopic starring Academy Award winner Sean Penn, whose performance is likely to be nominated for another Oscar, as is this film. That makes it official: Harvey Milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milk: It's Good, and Good for You | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...party for at least six months, but it was only good the first five times. Plus it got a lot of people dancing who probably should have stayed by the drinks­—you don’t have rhythm just because you can “superman that ho.” Question 2 (2008) Finally, you can emerge from that tiny bathroom with towels against the door and smoke up in the middle of the party. Stoners, rejoice...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rise and Fall of Harvard Social Life | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...vividly remember my first Superman comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all I wanted to do is draw comics. And specifically, superhero and science fiction comics. Basically I used to copy comic books, and draw my own comics on scrap paper. But I had an education which was rather hostile to that, because I was quite clever at school, and I could do other things like physics and chemistry and stuff, and so I got kind of sidetracked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen's Dave Gibbons | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

Living a double life is rough, even Superman has a tough time with it, but freshman cornerback Matt Hanson seems to take it in stride. Donning a retainer during the week and a mouthpiece on the weekends, Hanson is the Peter Parker of the Crimson football squad.His unassuming personality makes you forget he is a standout player, and his electrifying play makes you forget he is a freshman.Hanson is the quintessential normal guy off the field: quiet, reserved, and noticeably polite. A human evolutionary biology concentrator and aspiring doctor, Hanson is truly dedicated to his schoolwork off the field...

Author: By Evan Kendall, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frosh Cornerback Making Waves for Crimson | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corfugate Scandal Cheers Gloomy Britons | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

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