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...Unlike previous ventures into the graphic novel medium by traditional publishers, which tended to be more like timid toe-dips into an unfamiliar pond, First Second has an ambitious and smart lineup of books scheduled for the next three years. Based on the first releases that appear simultaneously this week, if First Second doesn't do well financially, it will at least have published some extremely interesting and admirable books...
They call themselves the Patriot Guard Riders, and in a culture in which a 24-hour news cycle and habitual political spin can make the most earnest public gesture seem tired or canned, they appear to be the real thing: a spontaneous mass movement. They formed as a response to the Rev. Fred Phelps, an attention-crazed fanatic based in Topeka, Kans., who has logged 15 years as a kind of paleo-fundamentalist, gay-baiting performance artist. Last spring Phelps grabbed the already troubling line, taken by preachers such as Pat Robertson, that disasters like 9/11 were God's punishment...
...future of two tiny, remote islets almost equidistant between Japan and South Korea might appear to matter only to the black-tailed gull and 21 other species of birds native to their craggy outcroppings. Without arable land or any fresh water, these 18 hectares of rocky mounds are barely habitable by humans. Indeed, the islands' population consists of as few as three dozen people, including some 30 Korean police, one or two lighthouse keepers and a married couple who have lived and fished there for more than three decades. The economic significance of the islands is no less marginal...
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...Ready for His Close-Up Amid reports of clashes between al-Zarqawi?s fighters and local insurgents, new images of al-Qaeda?s leader appear for the first time in years, in a videotape posted on the Internet last week. In it al-Zarqawi urges all Muslims to defend Islam from Western "crusaders...