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...Perdida has an unusual style for comix: Unlike most of her fellow North American graphic novelists, Abel doesn't use humor, irony or traditional comic book genres. Instead, she has created something all too rare in the medium: a realistic drama for adults told in a straightforward manner. The approach makes sense for a book which spends so much time exploring the nature of authenticity. "In gringolandia you have irony for everything," says one Mexican character, "so you can look at it and know what to think...
Cavalli is as famous for his prints as he is for his full-on approach: think giraffe spots on chiffon dresses, beaded psychedelic silk-satin shirts and rhinestone-studded jeans. Stars like Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Lopez and Lenny Kravitz cannot get enough of it. Valentino may be known as the chic one among Italian designers, but Cavalli is the playboy. Dressed in his uniform of jeans and black leather jacket, he's a rugged-looking 65-year-old with a healthy head of salt-and-pepper hair who has the former Miss Universe wife, the beautiful children, the Tuscan palazzo...
...plus stolen bases. But we’re always trying to push him...I’m saying, ‘Lance, let’s go! You can get this guy!’â€Salsgiver credits a counterintuitive, decidedly un-Harvard approach to his summertime success. He was aggressive rather than patient: “thinking less†and swinging with a former confidence.Following the summer, he was tempted to join classmates Zak Farkes, Frank Herrmann, and John Wolff in signing professional contracts and ending his time in Cambridge prematurely. He engaged in brief negotiations...
Unfortunately, the same approach-avoidance mentality that characterizes student-professor interaction often governs student group-faculty collaboration. With some notable exceptions, faculty advising of student groups often extends little further than signing a form once a year. There is no easy fix for this, but there are a number of ways the situation could be improved, principally by creating long-term mechanisms for student-faculty interaction that extend beyond individual students...
...security checks unless there are operational changes, such as the hiring of a new staff. If the Dubai episode prods Americans into a more active role in investigating commercial-port operations (one proposed law would ban foreign-government ownership of key port facilities), Canada's comparatively laid-back approach toward ownership could lead to new tension across the border...