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...know when a company is losing its way? With Mambo Graphics, a clue for co-founder Dare Jennings lay in the way some of its people were handling the firm's star artist. This was the early 2000s, after Jennings and Andrew Rich had sold the company for a rumored $20 million to the giant rag-trader Gazal Corporation. Having stayed on as creative director, Jennings was amused to see certain staffers treating Reg Mombassa like a tradesman. "They would come to me and say, 'Can Reg do something for us?' Later it would be, 'Now, Reg, this is what...
...meeting with Jennings and Mombassa. A founding member of the celebrated band Mental As Anything, Mombassa never formally cut ties with Mambo, but in the Gazal era they frayed to a thread. In the old days, Mombassa would fill his notepads with sketches and show them to Jennings. "Dare was willing to run with stuff that wasn't going to be commercial," says Mombassa, "because he wanted to make a point." In the Gazal period, when the sensibilities of a board of directors ruled, that idealism faded along with Mombassa's interest...
...chaos that America didn't want to acknowledge or be a part of. Mole-men are creatures of pure enlightenment. They read Voltaire and Rousseau. They championed reason and logic long before the surface world did, they took on the scientific method. And they are really the foundational, dare I say grounding, principals upon which our middle class, merchant-based democracy rests. They are the anti-hobos. They have slime dripping from their bodies, sure, and the smell of their saliva is very specific. Yes, they occasionally eat their own young, but they champion knowledge and art, and they possess...
...pantheon of brilliant graduates, it can be easy to anoint this institution, and to thus accept its occasional indictments as gospel. I would submit this resignation becomes still much easier to do when Harvard has not had much in the way of criticism for us—how dare we question a system that has so rewarded...
...This is when the Avenger grabbed his cape, mask and truncheon and got involved. Could we get Spirit at least to acknowledge Carol's plight or, dare we dream, reimburse her for the flight-change fees or the hotel bill? Would justice be served for Carol and all the other nameless fliers who had suffered before...