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...brief moment this past Sunday afternoon, Manhattan became the center of the alternative comix universe when the second annual MOCCA Art Festival opened at SoHo's Puck Building. Publishing planets and the stars that give them life were pulled in from as far as Europe, Australia, Canada and the West Coast. Where once there was a vacuum of interesting comix convergences in New York, this sudden gravitational pull proved irresistible to the medium's satellites. The line was out the door and on to the wet sidewalk. With crowds estimated by organizers at 2500, this year's attendance exceeded last...
...dollar houses in London, Edinburgh and the Scottish hills near Perth. And at the end of 2001, Rowling, 37, married Neil Murray, 31, a steady, brainy anesthetist she had met through a mutual friend. Last March they had a son David, who joins Jessica, 11, the daughter from her brief first marriage. Rowling has admitted that--no surprise--Harry is her favorite boy's name, but she wisely avoided saddling her son with that lifelong invitation to teasing...
...Roman ruins of Libya's Leptis Magna. "Immediately there was the sense?which I've had in only a few places in the world?of entering not so much a physical space as a force field, a place where time has stood its ground." But Leptis is only a brief sojourn on his inexorable descent, which culminates in a total breakdown in a Detroit diner...
...Clearly, there wasn't much for affirmative action opponents to cheer about. "A disaster," said Edward Blum, a senior fellow at the Center for Equal Opportunity, which had a filed a brief in the case opposing affirmative action...
...universities no longer to use racial preferences to create diversity. But that was little consulation. "It's an enormous victory for colleges and universities," said Sheldon Steinbach, general counsel for the American Council on Education, a national group that represents more than 1600 colleges and had filed a brief supporting the University of Michigan...