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...waste of God's time. This being a comic, we actually get to see this inspiration manifested. Thompson indulges in pages of Raina sleeping or typing, surrounded by fantastical imagery. She appears as a goddess and an angel surrounded by cherubim. It's a peerless example of form meeting content as only comix can achieve...
Catalano said the change in content was prompted by concerns raised this spring by Harvard administrators after the log included accounts of two attempted suicides by students...
...life, Franklin would be willing to compromise on many matters but not on his aversion to tyranny. After he became an editor on his own in Philadelphia, he led the fight against arbitrary taxes imposed from England. As early as 1755, when most of his fellow colonists were content to go along with such taxes, he wrote a scathing denunciation that concluded with what would eventually become an American rallying cry: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety...
...send her son to Harvard. As she journeys in her dream toward this temple of learning, she notices that the gate is guarded by "two sturdy porters named Riches and Poverty," and only those who met the approval of the former could get in. Most of the students are content to dally with the figures called Idleness and Ignorance. "They learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a room genteelly (which might as well be acquired at a dancing school), and from thence they return, after abundance of trouble and charge, as great blockheads as ever...
...White House, for its part, seems content to let Bush's itinerary serve as riposte. Despite Mandela's "unfortunate comments not just about the President but also about America in general," the White House official says, Bush means "no disrespect" by not meeting with Mandela. "We're focused on spending time with those who are in office...