For Reading, John Salako forced a save from Preston keeper Jonathan Gould with a 25-yard free-kick, who also had to deny substitute DeanMorgan with his feet right at the death.
We are introduced to a band of former crime busters, now under threat: Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), the Comedian (Jeffrey DeanMorgan), Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), the lithe but witless Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman), a moneyed fop named Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), and, lastly, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), who takes time off from merciless slaughter to narrate the proceedings.
For months Wall Street had been witness to an amiable but very public media debate between Barton Biggs, chief equity strategist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and chairman of Morgan Stanley Asset Management, and, well, his plumber, Ron Valentine.