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...have been more apt: Tintin's creator, Hergé, was born one hundred years ago on Tuesday. Many credit Hergé, whose real name was Georges Remi, with inventing much of the visual grammar that defines modern comics. His books involve masterly plots and a depth of humor, artistry, detail and characterization. His iconic comic strip hero travelled the world fighting crime and ventured to the moon a full decade before Neil Armstrong...
...Hergé's overall influence was vast. He mastered a style of drawing called ligne claire or clear line: a clean, pared-down style of simple, precise lines. His work involved stylized detail throughout, with no shading and sheer blocks of color. Hergé's impact went beyond the world of comic strips, influencing the work of artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. His storytelling was also pioneering. Tom McCarthy, author of last year's Tintin and the Secret of Literature, says the books create "a huge social tableau... managed with all the subtlety normally attributed to Jane Austen...
...vote.After the 2007-2008 school year, the general education committee will assume the responsibilities of the Standing Committee on the Core Program—but the Core itself, with all of its requirements, may remain in place for several years more as the academic and administrative details of the new curriculum are fleshed out.A LEARNING CURVEAccording to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, who served on the three-member group that drafted the legislation based on a final report released in February, there will be a transition period of “a couple years...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1.) flunking out; 2.) doing work; or 3.) working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...Cook ultimately rejected both arguments, but not before allowing defense lawyers to take testimony from guards at the brig. The government denies that any torture took place, and the guards didn't give up much detail, but prosecutors fought intensely to block such testimony or let any information seep into the public record about what might have happened during Padilla's detention. And if it ever existed, the evidence of a dirty bomb and attacks on apartment buildings is not expected to appear in the trial - possibly because it was obtained through improper interrogation of witnesses like Zubaydah (who says...