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...cuts, the in-your-face immediacy, and the clear-cut, no-shades-of-gray, good-versus-evil story lines of the Mike Hammer novels come straight out of the comic-book world. Mickey Spillane was writing something else - comic books for grown-ups." I, the Jury, then, can lay claim to being the first graphic novel, just without illustrations...
...challenging the government's version of events. An affadavit filed by a lawyer for one detainee said: "Our client reported that he and many other detainees had their written materials seized more than ten days before the deaths of the three [suicides]" - nearly six weeks before Guantanamo authorities claimed that prisoner materials were impounded. If this claim were proven in court, it could undermine the government's contention that attorney-client materials were seized in the course of an investigation into the three prisoners deaths, and not before...
...prohibits bets by wire communication. But since a U.S. appeals court ruled in 2002 that the act applied only to sports gambling, poker operators have denied that poker is a sport. (Those taking sports bets argue too that the Internet has changed the rules of the game and claim that the Wire Act is not applicable to such digital wagers...
...work. An upscale supermarket was packed as I stocked up for what might be a long siege of Lebanon. I found myself in a grim race with another man grabbing bottles of orange juice, each of us trying to get as many as we could before the other could claim them. This will be a savage place in two weeks if this keeps up, I thought...
...does it feel to be dead? Does it feel? Some people claim to communicate with the dead. In my book Some of Me, I had live and dead people debating fashion and aesthetics. I included my parents, and some people believed I actually talked to them. At one book signing, this group of women was looking at me intensely. When they came up to me, they said, "You see them too?" For me, it was just fantasy...