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...shouldn't take a small publisher, based in Canada, to bring baseball to American comicbooks, but it has. Fortunately, James Sturm's rousing, brass-band-and-hoopla wonder, "The Golem's Mighty Swing" (Drawn & Quarterly; 108 pgs; $11.95) is more than equal to the task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Ballpark | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...People were poor under the communists and they have remained poor. But they believe that at least under the communists they had some stability. And illusions. They were poor, but their poverty was shared. They were equal in poverty. Now they see that some people are doing very well, but they're still stuck in poverty. What's worse, they no longer have any hope. Under communism, they labored under the illusion that if they saved and saved, eventually they would have enough money to buy a car or an apartment, or that if their kids studied hard, they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'My Delusions Quickly Collapsed' | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...Voters want their representatives to be a little purer, a little smarter, and a little more competent than themselves. Yet they want their representative to be an equal. Moakley was all [of] this,” Clark said...

Author: By Louisa H. Cooper, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Campaign Heats Up To Replace Moakley in the Ninth | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

...have looked into someone else’s eyes and seen George’s “Something,” and because the world entire has been converted to the gospel of the album’s penultimate song: In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make...

Author: By David C. Newman, | Title: POSTCARD FROM LONDON: My Sweet George | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...tenure four years later, Mahar had quadrupled the size of the school's pre-K program, and made sure that there were equal numbers of its graduates in the kindergarten classes. Now he's hoping to bring the same benefit to public school children in his district, where about one-quarter of pupils are poor enough to qualify for a free- or reduced-price lunch. "I'm telling the parents who signed up it will hopefully go forward in the future," Mahar says. "But unfortunately it's not going to help your children, not this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House Ignores Solution to Improve Education | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

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