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...access and Springfest. Student safety and student entertainment are two of the most important domains of council business, large parts of the reason students dedicate part of their term bill to the council’s coffers. It is hard to see any excuse for keeping students in the dark about their representatives’ arguments on these topics...
What has given the Bush campaign the most confidence during these dark days is its ground organization. While Democrats were attacking, the Bush team says it was quietly laying track. Much of the $41 million the campaign has spent so far out of the $140 million raised has been on this quiet infrastructure. Indeed, campaign manager Ken Mehlman, the Harvard-educated son of a CPA, has worked so diligently to build a field organization that some call him the "accountant" for his excessive attention to detail...
Pulitzer-prizewinning novels don't usually get comic-book tie-ins, but with Michael Chabon's comic-themed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the move makes sense. The Escapist (Dark Horse Comics), a new quarterly anthology series, collects stories starring the novel's Houdini-like superhero. The first issue includes the Chabon-written origin of the Escapist, with art by Eric Wight, along with several tongue-in-cheek tales by other comic-book writers and artists. Each one evokes a different period of the medium's history: Howard Chaykin turns in a '50s-style hard-boiled story...
...second act, America. Many have fled their island to escape bad memories--and look up in New York City to see their parents' killers in the next row at church, or in the barbershop. Though they could be haunted immigrants from many a troubled place, they have a dark broodingness that suggests that life is a ghost story, made up of dead brothers, lost fathers. Even when the latest tyrant, "Baby Doc" Duvalier, flees in 1986, that only clears the way for murderers to be murdered in turn...
...main battle in the next majlis will be between the pragmatists and the hardliners among the right," said Tehran University political science professor, Sadegh Zibakalam, in a heated debate on American-sponsored Radio Farda. "If the hardliners squash the pragmatists with their isolationist and extremist policies, then I see dark clouds in the sky. But if the pragmatists are able to triumph over the hardliners and push through with their proclaimed plans of economic improvement, then I see light at the end of the tunnel...