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...still woefully forgotten "missing link" in the evolution of the graphic novel medium. Kings in Disguise (W.W. Norton; 184 pages; $17), by James Vance and Dan Burr, will finally be reprinted in an affordable, attractive and widely-available paperback edition. A remarkably sensitive and engrossing book from the late 1980s, when the medium got its first - short-lived - shot at mainstream appreciation, it remains, even 15 years later, a benchmark against which others in the genre can be measured...
...couldn’t afford an abortion.’”Although Harvard’s TBTN is now more well-coordinated and on-theme, it’s hard not to sense an undying orthodoxy lying beneath the surface.Ever since it was first held in the 1980s, the Harvard event has treated sexual violence not as the provenance of a few depraved criminals. Instead, as TBTN’s organizers put it in a Crimson op-ed last week, “We spend 51 weeks of the year in a culture that tacitly condones sexual violence...
...prison in 1993, Riina took over as top boss, with Provenzano as his No. 2. Riina was captured the same year and remains behind bars. Provenzano transformed the Mafia into a less violent, more economically efficient machine after Riina's bloody war with the Italian state in the 1980s and early 1990s put the squeeze on La Cosa Nostra...
Terrill was educated at the University of Melbourne, and came to Harvard in 1965 to earn his Ph.D. He joined the faculty in 1970, and since the 1980s has been an independent writer and associate at the Fairbank Center. He is the author of seven books on China, including a biography of Mao’s wife Madame...
...interview with TIME, Ghomi, who rarely talks with the Western press, denied he is playing a military role in Iraq. He says most of his generation of government officials served, as did he, in the Revolutionary Guards? Baseej (?volunteer?) units during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s but explains that ?I stopped my military service years ago.? (The Baseej continue to be a major pillar of support for Iran?s hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.) The diplomat, however, suggested that Iran would prove a better partner and guarantor of Iraqi stability than...