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Kirk followed the Miss Spider series in 1999 with Nova's Ark, a considerably darker tale of a planet populated only by robots. Instead of painting pictures, he worked with a computer-graphics company to create the images. He also has board books about baby animals for even smaller children, from infants to preschoolers. So far, he's the author of 12 titles overall. Pretty good going considering that he became an author by default...
...that you will certainly lose. Wartime leadership requires a dual message. It has been President Bush's role from the earliest days to handle our hopes, reacquaint us with our resilience and remind our allies of our resolve. It has fallen to Vice President Cheney, a nighthawk with a darker imagination, to focus our fears. The risks of inaction outweigh the risks of action, he warned this summer, because we face an enemy that will never relent and never recede until it is destroyed...
With their built-in audience, the nine previous Trek films grossed an average of $181 million in inflation-adjusted terms and earned a collective profit of $1.2 billion. And Nemesis is better--darker, more surprising--than the average Trek. Of course, it won't make as much as, say, Spider-Man. Yet Star Trek has outlasted other brands over the years. (Suck a phaser, Batman...
...been aired dozens of times. With their built-in audience, the nine previous Trek films grossed an average of $181 million in inflation-adjusted terms and collectively made $1.2 billion - nearly 30% of it from loyal crew members overseas, particularly in the U.K. and Germany. And Nemesis is better - darker, more surprising - than the average Trek. Of course, it won't make as much as, say, Spider-Man. Yet Star Trek has outlasted other brands over the years. (Suck a phaser, Batman.) How does Trek survive? The oft-cited answer is that freakish Trekkies - fans who saved the original series...
...passes for black leadership. Ford is too shrewd to talk openly about the insults himself, but they obviously stung him. Not content to criticize Ford on the legitimate grounds of his callowness and lack of legislative accomplishments, some dredged up his "high yellow" skin color to discredit him with darker-skinned blacks. Others, like a certain well-known civil rights leader who ought to know better, described Ford as "another Clarence Thomas" - the same as swatting him down as an Uncle...