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...graphic novel, The Rabbi's Cat, this year), the Dungeon series, which parodies such "sword and sandal" works as Conan or Lord of the Rings, has become a huge hit in its native country. The first two English-translated volumes reveal why. Filled with comedy - the stars are cowardly duck and vegetarian dragon - and adventure, these full color stories have an inventiveness rarely seen since, well, Conan or Lord of the Rings. 'Dungeons' and Ducks 3/19/2005
...broken at all beneath those fishnets,” said McKee. The team members nodded in assent. “I hate this effing stupid team,” said Lowrey, clutching a cigarette. “I can’t wait until I am a lame duck. Too bad I actually will be lame,” she said, exhaling into Fee’s face...
...salvage his remaining three years. The focus will soon shift to the 2006 midterm elections and then to the race to replace him in 2008. And a midterm election that doesn't go the Republicans' way would draw a bright line of demarcation between a presidency and a lame-duck Administration...
...members of the Cambridge School Committee denounced Galluccio’s proposal as invasive and unnecessary. “The simple asking [for an outside audit] has cast aspersions” on the integrity of the School Committee’s financial data, said Benjamin R. Lummis, a lame-duck committee member who was ousted in November’s elections. Nancy Walser, a member of the School Committee who was reelected in November, dragged four large file boxes with her as a prop to represent the amount of paperwork faced by school administrators in an audit. Under Cambridge?...
...splashy illustrations are great, of course, but give this book credit for trusting children to appreciate exquisitely detailed pen-and-ink drawings as well. And for treating kids, in typography and design, to a truly elegant piece of bookmaking. The fable-like story is a prickly dialogue between a duck and an owl, who, although they see virtues in each other, can't quite become friends because each fails to understand why the other does things in such an odd way. The duck likes to glide back and forth in the water; the owl prefers sitting high...