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...fall, non-Japanese readers will be able to sample the best of it when Abandon the Old in Tokyo, a collection of Tatsumi's work, is published in English. Tatsumi's shell-shocked characters include a truck driver who ditches his invalid mother; a factory worker who loses his arm in an industrial accident, then loses his job, his girlfriend and his pet monkey; and a bankrupt businessman who seeks solace through intimate relations with a dog. And what about that moon-faced young man who appears as the central loser in many of these cartoons? "You could...
...because he was in a position to harm young girls as a teacher in Thailand, Lacy said, she felt an obligation to bring him in for questioning. And he seemed a credible confessor with inside knowledge about JonBenet. He knew, for instance, about the bracelet on JonBenet's arm, although it turned out that it had been mentioned in the autopsy report. And he wrote about her runny nose, although that's common among kids during the winter. Investigators therefore tested his credibility with other details he mentioned in his e-mail messages. He wrote, for example, about his mother...
...October, the script had been edited: “If your alarm clock wakes me up one more time, I’ll break your arm.” “Do your laundry or Febreeze it, because it’s starting to smell...
...have enabled soldiers to survive battlefield injuries that in earlier conflicts meant death, many of the new patients are arriving at VA hospitals with severe wounds. In response, the VA has set up four polytrauma centers around the country. Dawn Halfaker, a former Army captain who lost her right arm in Iraq, says negotiating the bureaucracy to get treatment for all her medical needs has been frustrating at times. She had to wait eight months for an appointment at the Washington hospital to get her teeth cleaned. Even so, she says, the care "is not as bad as I thought...
...Some banks go even further in offering products that provide not only profits but that aura of exclusivity and sophistication that the client with everything may be inclined to prize. One vehicle with almost irresistible snob appeal is the "Ultimate Wine Fund" offered by the private-banking arm of the French giant Soci?t? G?n?rale Group. Available primarily to customers of SocG?n's Asian private bank, the fund is linked to a specially created Cayman Islands firm that, acting on the advice of wine experts and auction houses, buys and stores select vintages. Investors wanting to cash out after the minimum...