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...order to win the hand of his beloved princess, but along the way gets distracted - in a send-up of the grail quest - by the hunt for something called Snappy Cola. The second story, "Gran'pa Greenbax and the Eternal Smile," focuses on a miserly frog who must confront his thirst for riches when he finds himself the subject of a Truman Show - like plot. In the final story, "Urgent Request," a mousy, ridiculed office assistant puts her faith - and money - in an unsolicited e-mail purportedly concocted by a desperate Nigerian prince. (See the top 10 graphic novels...
...those who believe that this would be a catastrophe, the urgent question is how best to contain the surge. Deny far-right leaders the oxygen of publicity? Tricky - they have a democratic mandate. Confront them? That risks casting them as martyrs, victims who tell unpalatable truths. Expose the racism that often underlies professions of patriotism? Well, yes, but that assumes voters choose far-right parties in ignorance of their views, rather than because they strike a chord. Steal their nationalist thunder by taking tough lines on issues such as immigration? This smacks of capitulation to the very ideas critics seek...
...Wednesday, the Tehran commander of the élite Revolutionary Guards threatened serious consequences for would-be protesters who planned to march in the streets. "We are not joking," he declared to the semi-official Fars news agency. "We will confront those who want to fight against the clerical establishment." The same day, Press TV, a state-sponsored broadcast station, reported that "an underground network providing foreign media outlets with photos and footage of the post-election unrest has been identified and arrested in Iran." Despite such threats and the existence of undercover Basij within the crowds, witnesses said that protesters...
...friends in America," former President Jimmy Carter told TIME on his way into a meeting with the mayor) and law-abiding citizens like Sharon Katz is another matter. Politically, it is not easy for Netanyahu to face down the settlers. But if he does nothing, Obama will have to confront the Israelis more directly than has any other President since George H.W. Bush, who threatened to refuse granting Israel $10 million in loan guarantees as long as the expansion of settlements continued...
...pretty straightforward commentary that you probably don’t need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who uses a cane, who’s in his own home.” But the fact that the unflappable Barack Obama, even for a minute, was willing to confront uncomfortable facts about race in America shows how close to home the Gates arrest hits for the President...