And beside me was Len Wein, who was involved with the original Watchmen books.
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At least part of the reason for Rockwell's rehabilitation is surely that questions of that kind nowadays seem flat-footed and beside the point.
Ota responded by saying she would use her influence in the capital to help her constituents - and beside, she returns to her Osaka home every weekend.
An otherwise brave boy, he was frightened and beside himself.
"This story was too much under the spotlight, and beside (that) there is suffering, there are two young people that unjustly spent nearly four years in prison, " he said.
At sunset, the place is filled with food stalls, ranged in tightly drawn rows, benches for the diners, strings of lights overhead, food banked up in the middle and beside it, a griddle.
He was in his home in New Orleans and beside him he could hear his wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat.
The problem is that the ECFR's argument is both true and beside the point, because it is so far removed from the way that individual countries act and think (reminiscent, in this respect, of the French statement issued after the Olympics proclaiming that the EU had collectively won, with a total of 280 medals).
They get to enjoy the burdens of the massive and mostly-beside-the-point Dodd-Frank law and the beefed-up and also mostly-beside-the-point Basil III rules.
The luxurious new Black Rock Oceanfront Resort is a curving sweep of glass, steel, and wood beside the rain forest and above a surge channel that boasts the best storm-watching in the West.
Dhani explains that he tucks messages of tolerance and peace beside Western, straight rock beats and halting, syncopated Arabic rhythms.
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Ms Harte stayed outside and sat beside Mr Roe - who had walked away then returned - and spoke to him and gave him a hug before going back inside the house.
That is hard to know, and rather beside the point: economists aside, few are excited by the difference between a mild recession and a period of sluggish growth.
He picked up planks and stakes from beside the track and flung them under the front wheels, but the car was going so fast that it crushed the wood to nothing and sped up even more.
And when they don't, most voters are content to let them go and play beside the sea.
It never did and the opposition leaders, in particular, Etienne Tshisekedi, now look powerless and pathetic beside the victorious Mr Kabila.
Late Tuesday and early Wednesday, FBI agents were seen inside the West Palm Beach building, walking its halls and standing beside shelves full of files.
One late afternoon as the sun turned golden yellow and the Pastor fixed the roof of the shelter, a man walked up to us and stood beside me.
They placed pictures and flowers beside names etched in bronze.
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Tributes and hope burn in the flames of candles and shrines beside the doorway, this massive orifice from which red engines of life charge day after day, but now sit silent.
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"This is the only car I've ever owned that you can be driving down the interstate and people pull up beside you and take a picture of it, " her husband, a retired 20-year Army veteran, said with amusement-tinged pride.
Or book a table next door at one of Asian fusion star Susur Lee's twin establishments: SusUr (picture seven-course tasting menus eaten in a white room fitted with ostrich-skin banquettes), and right beside that, the brand-new Lee (with an equally dazzling, less costly menu).
The man can reel off 98 mile-per-hour fastballs at the letters at will when he's in a tight spot, and so watching him nick corners and change speeds is like watching Carmelo Anthony pass and set picks: not what you're paying for and totally beside the point.
Consider this curious tale from New York restaurateur Danny Meyer, who literally wrote the book on hospitality. (It's called "Setting the Table, " and it's required reading for anyone in the industry.) Last June -- on Father's Day -- Meyer returned to his room at the Little Nell in Aspen, Colorado, to find a framed photo of his wife and children beside the bed.
But the key thing now from our point of view is the team that is now put in place and how we stand beside them, and work with them to get ourselves out of the problems we've got now and to move forward.
His house stands grandly between the Presidio and the bay, beside the illuminated dome and arches of the Palace of Fine Arts.
Never fear: Littleneck sources its seafood from more pellucid waters up and down the New England coast, and is a full block away from the canal, in a gritty, rapidly developing area where live-music spots and an artisanal pie shop stand beside warehouses and a forbidding old-time social club.
He crossed the stream, picked a double handful, washed the muddy roots clean in the current and then sat down again beside his pack and ate the clean, cool green leaves and the crisp, peppery-tasting stalks.
The internal fighting in Indonesia and Sri Lanka pales beside that in the Congo and Sudan, and seems unlikely to be a significant obstacle to the relief effort.
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