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...Crime writer Lawrence Block believes Spillane did more than spice up a genre; he created a format that bridged midcult and low art, print and picture. Block notes that Hammer "was originally intended as a comic-strip hero. The fast cuts, the in-your-face immediacy, and the clear-cut, no-shades-of-gray, good-versus-evil story lines of the Mike Hammer novels come straight out of the comic-book world. Mickey Spillane was writing something else - comic books for grown-ups." I, the Jury, then, can lay claim to being the first graphic novel, just without illustrations...
...into my uncle’s 1-year-old BMW. I was sitting in the front next to my uncle. We [went] as fast as my uncle deemed possible, which at times included over 80 miles per hour on the mountain roads. About 15 minutes into our drive, my uncle asked my friend, “Is there anything by your feet?” [He] reached back and pulled out a handgun...
...behind 7/11 what they wanted. But if they are, we’re possibly looking at another India-Pakistan standoff and more violent uncertainty in Kashmir. Either way, the need of the hour is cool-headed thinking from the Indian government: While preserving existing peace-talks, they must act fast to outthink terrorists. Meanwhile, the Indian people and media need to resist the temptation to provide a religious or nationalistic slant to terrorism before any evidence is collected—I would hope we’ve learnt that lesson by now. Ravi Agrawal...
...from distant Mather House) I had become a professional speed-walker and de facto captain of the Olympic tourist-dodging team. Although some Fabio from Harvard Law School had put my push-up total to shame, my first-place-winning laps around the Yard were fast-paced, yet all-too familiar. Walking away, albeit slowly, from the University Hall finish line, I realized I set a very challenging time to beat at the end-of-summer test. I also recognized that my approach to Harvard encompassed the same need for speed. I’m anything but eager to leave...
...attack last week was a reminder, to a world dazzled by India's economic boom, that the nation is not immune to problems that threaten cities all over the world, rich and poor. This time the terrorists' target was a global financial capital at the heart of the fast-growing Asian economy and a popular destination for foreign investment. The similarity to recent attacks on transportation networks in Western financial capitals was not lost on residents of Bombay. "First Madrid, then London, now us," says Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, a well-known Indian investor. "The terrorists were trying to attack the financial...