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Evanston resident Dan Brush, 74, a semiretired investment broker, is a firm believer in home sharing. For three years he has been sharing his 12-room house with another divorced man, introduced to him by a mutual friend. Although Brush is healthy and active, he appreciates having someone else around. He also saves about $3,000 a year on utility expenses. "This man had just got divorced and was looking for a new place to live, and I have a big home with a lot of space, so it seemed to make sense that we share this place...
...Still, some observers say Wen's low-key consensus-building approach may ultimately be the best way to finish what his boss started. "Whether he comes off as charismatic really doesn't matter," says a Western businessman. China has accomplished much of the necessary broad-brush reforms and now needs to do the detail work?a task for which Wen is well suited...
...infantry dogfaces appeared in the pages of the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, fighting not just the Germans during the Italian campaign but also tedium, wet socks, lousy K rations and their commanding officers. G.I.s everywhere laughed, or nodded in rueful recognition. Mauldin combined the satiric eye and brush of a Daumier with the ear of a Ring Lardner. He captioned a drawing of a sergeant addressing his bedraggled men: "I need a couple guys what don't owe me no money for a little routine patrol." His war works won Mauldin a Pulitzer Prize...
...evokes the world depicted by such "degenerate" German artists as George Grosz and Otto Dix. Other scenes take on the fractured look of Braque and Picasso's cubist work. His lines curve and twist, zig and zag, constantly delighting the eye but never losing form. Using an ochre-colored brush for the outlines and masterful shading with colored pencils Mattotti has created one the most richly, almost garishly, colored comix I have ever seen. In a manner that belongs exclusively to comix, Mattotti and Kramsky have brilliantly used both graphics and narrative to turn "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" into...
Phenom, 26, was not giving the rep the brush-off. She did not have $8. She had $6--a neatly folded $5 bill and a one--tucked inside her jeans pocket. That was the Cochran family's nest...