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...tell, comix have long been a haven for the story of the little guy. The marginalized nature of the medium has meant that virtually anyone can afford to put out a comic about his or her life. Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor," about the travails of a Cleveland file clerk, has become the best known ordinary-guy autobiography, but virtually every great cartoonist of the last twenty years has tried their hand at it. Two recent graphic novels are perfect examples of comix' ability to capture the drama of less public lives...
...outburst of semi-legalized gay marriages has spread to places that have never been known as gay capitals, or even as cities. In New Mexico's Sandoval County, 67 gay couples were granted marriage licenses last week until the state attorney general ordered the county clerk to stop. In tiny New Paltz, N.Y., Jason West, the Green Party mayor, presided over the weddings of two dozen gay couples. George Pataki, the state's Republican Governor, quickly asked Eliot Spitzer, the Democratic state attorney general, to halt them. Spitzer refused. Meanwhile, Daniel Stewart, the mayor of not-so-big Plattsburgh...
...Charles Tremayne. "The staff comes first." On Airline, not only is the customer not always right, but the customer is often a drunk, a liar or a jerk. While Tremayne says Southwest had no editorial control, it gets the better of most conflicts here. One passenger berates a desk clerk for "losing" her bag, although it has been on a baggage carousel 30 ft. away from her the whole time. Don't believe your lying eyes and your own flying experience, Airline tells us. If there's a problem with air travel...
Does fulfilling your duty in the National Guard automatically qualify you to be Commander in Chief? Of course not! Being an office clerk at a corporation doesn't automatically make you fit to be its CEO. There is no shortage of issues to attack Bush on. Stick to the essentials! Who cares about his service record 30 years ago? MARTIN CERVALL Stockholm...
Meanwhile, other civic leaders embraced Newsom's actions. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said he would have "no problem" with Cook County issuing same-sex marriage licenses. Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson welcomed San Francisco's new policy. Victoria Dunlap, a Republican county clerk in New Mexico, issued licenses to 26 same-sex couples last Friday until the state attorney general shut her down...