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Cliff W. Chiang ’96 knows dark and twisted. Five years ago, this Harvard grad left his job as assistant editor for the Vertigo comics imprint—the branch of DC Comics responsible for publishing “V for Vendetta,” as well as many other mature-reader-oriented titles—to move back in with his parents and start from scratch. The goal: become a comic book artist in his own right. The path: quite dark and twisted indeed. Chiang was a trailblazer in his undergrad days as a joint concentrator...
...most elegant of settings - a gourmet restaurant. From Northern California's wine country to the dunes of Cape Cod, three-star chefs have begun whipping up surprising combinations like waffles with caviar, eggs benedict with truffles, and even French toast with chevre, and serving them well after dark. Long a staple of roadside diners and harried family cooks with no time to bake a lasagna, breakfast for dinner appeals to our cravings for soft, warm comfort foods that aren't heavy but still feel like a real meal...
Each week, their heads huddled together, these students dedicate 30 to 50 hours to problem sets—proving significant theorems with only definitions to guide them. Besides dark undereye circles and abandoned Expos assignments, this produces incredibly close friendships and camaraderie...
...duck Congress debated on Wednesday, and you?ll be forgiven if you think they were drafted by a liberal crusader for women's rights. The law is presented as protecting a woman's right to know, and to make an informed consent. "Women should not be kept in the dark," argues Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, a sponsor of the bill whose stated purpose is "to ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed regarding the pain experienced by their unborn child...
...Regardless of the pain caused the Pentagon by the Haditha probe, it can take some solace from a new study by Colin Kahl of the University of Minnesota. "Despite some dark spots on its record, the U.S. military has done a better job of respecting noncombatant immunity in Iraq than is commonly believed," Kahl, an assistant professor of political science, says in the November-December issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. "I have found not only that U.S. compliance with noncombatant immunity in Iraq is relatively high by historical standards, but also that it has been improving since the beginning...