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...hope is that dumping such stocks en masse will persuade companies to cease working in Sudan, and the resulting economic pressure, like that applied to South Africa during apartheid, will push the government to rein in the Arab Janjaweed militias--which international monitors blame for the deaths of more than 70,000 black Darfuris since 2003. "It stops us from being directly complicit in genocide," says recent Harvard graduate Brandon Terry, who led the effort there. A spokeswoman for Siemens, targeted by activists for building infrastructure in Sudan, says the German firm "takes the concerns seriously" but that shutting down...
...Using his wealth of experience cartooning for magazines and comix, Geary's engraving-style black and white drawings seem particularly suited to stories that date from over 100 years ago. Each panel has a masterful sense of mise en scene, like the staged photos of the time, giving them a powerfully dramatic look. Straddling the border between realism and simplified cartoon, Geary's caricatures also have a subtle whimsy about them that adds to the macabre sense of humor running through all the books of the series, including this one. One panel provides a bizarre close-up of Lincoln...
Others see Grand Boulevard as en forcing a destructive life-style on its residents, if the word life-style can be applied to living with few jobs, a poor education, little money or food, no network of family or social support, no cultural emphasis on child rearing, and a resulting world view that is abjectly fatalistic...
...infused with a passionate fire and breathtaking precision not heard in years--that he would be, in short, the Horowitz of old, one last time. "There is much emotion inside, but I will not let it out before Sunday, because then everything could go smash," he had remarked en route to Moscow...
...thin crust of official coolness often melted, however, notably at the conclusion of a Horowitz press conference at the Conservatory's Rachmaninoff Hall. There, hardened Soviet journalists shouldered one another aside in their frenzy to get autographs. "Sign en Russe," reminded Wanda, overseeing the impromptu session. And when Horowitz emerged from the conference, he was confronted by a horde of fresh-faced music students eager to get a glimpse of the master. "It is very important to us for him to have a big success," said one girl through her tears...