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...It’s probably not a good indication of my social life that I bump into people at parties, hear their names and think, ‘Did you apply for a grant?” Barro says...
...imagined by Tardi, Nestor Burma has an ovular face with two dots for eyes and a permanent scowl. In profile, his face appears flat, like a blank wall, except for a bump of a nose and a pipe sticking out of a mouth that never opens, even when speaking. Tardi works in the classic French bandes dessinee style (a close match to the work of Japanese comix master Osamu Tezuka, incidentally) with near-photographic reproductions of backgrounds that the flat, "cartoonish" characters inhabit. The "Tintin" mysteries by Herge are the most famous example of this style, which Tardi updates with...
...alleged use of a “secret banned weapon” in an October mission over the Gaza Strip. Halutz also drew criticism for his alleged insensitivity to the human costs of IAF missions. “I don’t feel a thing, except a slight bump in the airplane when the bomb is released,” he said in one recent interview...
...staff, our academic programs, the excellence and world-wide impact of our cutting-edge research and scholarship, the evolution of our campus and its infrastructure and our underlying financial strength,” Vest said. “MIT has great momentum, but we are hitting a large bump in the road and must make major near-term adjustments...
...second-place finish in Iowa, though, may be little more than a speed bump to Dean as he heads for New Hampshire a week later. The state is a must-win for Massachusetts' Kerry, who was once presumed to be the front runner but now looks more irrelevant than inevitable. In the latest WMUR-TV and University of New Hampshire poll, released last Friday night, Dean opened a gaping 38%-to-16% lead over Kerry, and no one else topped 5%. Kerry's fund raisers are telling him it's getting next to impossible to find anyone willing to write...