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...Four Immigrants" follows the lives of four guys, fresh off the boat from Japan, over the course of twenty years. Each takes a Western name, Henry, Fred, Frank and Charlie, and each has different goal. Henry, the author's surrogate, wants to study art, giving the story a personal verisimilitude that makes "Four Immigrants" not only the first graphic novel, but the first autobiographical graphic novel as well. But the two characters who quickly take the book's center are the ne'er-do-well Charlie and Frank, the budding capitalist. Continually rebuffed in their efforts to earn money, Charlie...
...plausible than Bruno Ganz in the Academy Award-nominated Downfall (or even the toga-clad Heinz Schubert in the 1978 film Our Hitler), he delivers a spluttering invective against the “low races,” and proceeds to bestow upon Bose a toy model of the boat that will carry the latter around Africa “like Vasco da Gama”—and furnish ample opportunity, in turn, to bond with the spice-starved German crew over...
...plausible than Bruno Ganz in the Academy Award-nominated Downfall (or even the toga-clad Heinz Schubert in the 1978 film Our Hitler), he delivers a spluttering invective against the “low races,” and proceeds to bestow upon Bose a toy model of the boat that will carry the latter around Africa “like Vasco da Gama”—and furnish ample opportunity, in turn, to bond with the spice-starved German crew over...
...Afghani who won his case late last year after four years locked up is, she says, typical: "He can't sleep, he can't eat, he has panic attacks and depression - and all because of detention. What I cannot understand is that 87% of people who arrive by boat are eventually released on visas, and yet many of those are spending years in detention." Despite repeated requests, Federal Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone chose not to speak to Time...
...They] were afraid of the liability of having B-boats again this year,” D’Arcy said in an email, citing last year’s incident when a Leverett boat capsized, though no one was injured...