never actually elected as the Prime Minister. She wasn’t the leader of the PC Party when she won her seat and she only became Prime Minister because then-PM, Brian Mulroney, retired. Campbell won the subsequent leadership race and became Prime minister for about five months. She never sat in Parliament as the Prime Minister because Parliament was closed for the summer. She lost the next election.

David Coxsey

The Shadowman/Aerosmith issue. It was on prominent display at my local shop, and 13 year old David wanted it so bad because it A) featured Aerosmith and B) it was a Valiant comic, which (like anything by Image) at that time was said to be just printed money.

Or you can do something easy and feature Superman 75. I had cousins buying upEarthquakes are the expression of a living planet, the earth's way of re-inventingitself. But while this knowledge may be consoling in the abstract, it's not very useful in the face of a catastrophe such as last week's quake and tsunami in Japan. At these times, we need real consolation: food and water, emergency services and rescue ... and, David L. Ulin suggests, literature. Ulin is the author of "The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith."

For as long as we have experienced seismicity, we have written about it, going back to the Book of Acts. Below are nine works (one for each of this most recent earthquake's points of magnitude) that channel both our terror and our awe.

1) "The Earthquake in