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...draftsmanship was up to the level of the vision. Here's, I promise, my last Feiffer quote: "Eisner's line had weight. Clothing sat on his characters heavily; when they bent an arm, deep folds sprang into action everywhere. When one Eisner character slugged another, a real fist hit real flesh. Violence was not externalized plot exercise; it was the gut of his style. Massive and indigestible, it curdled, lava-like, from the page." As does Feiffer's prose...
When the Iraqi Army, supported by American air power, battled militants outside the Shi'a holy city of Najaf last weekend it seemed at first like just another episode in the country's history of violence: a fight with Sunni insurgents bent on bloodying the Shi'a commemoration of Ashura, or a flare-up in the simmering battle between Shi'a political movements and militias...
...return address. And it sent 11 of them. But Mumma might have stopped future messages by clicking on a highlighted link, something he refused to do because, he says, "that just gets you on more spam lists." Maybe so. It's clear, though, that unlike some Nigerian scam artist bent on fooling e-mail filters, the company didn't try to hide its identity...
...Baghdad shows that greater numbers of U.S. forces are unlikely to have an effect on the situation. To be sure, even a doubling of U.S. forces in Baghdad may not be enough to hold down violence in a vast city of roughly 7 million people where powerful militias bent on sectarian war are allowed to remain. But there are pockets of success that suggest greater efforts by U.S. forces may be able to stabilize quarters of the city that otherwise would become sectarian killing grounds...
...Charlesview board has preferred to merely fly below the radar, pushing ahead with a “process” bent on reaching a foregone conclusion. The board seems reluctant to push back at Harvard for better sites, community benefits, and other improvements for Charlesview. It is as if the board believes that demanding full value for our asset would somehow offend Harvard and cause the board to lose its opportunity...