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Pomey, an economics concentrator, was featured in the December issue of The Crimson’s weekly magazine Fifteen Minutes (FM), as one of its 15 outstanding seniors. She told FM then that she planned on going into...
...growing even faster than use of cell phones. And despite Beijing's best efforts, says Rosen, "there's no way for the government to keep a tight cap on the flow of information anymore." That poses a dilemma both for Beijing and for businesses that traditionally prize political stability. Fifteen years in the making, China's WTO push constitutes just an epic prologue to great social and economic transformations to come. Observers uniformly call it a revolution from above. But unless successors to Jiang and Premier Zhu Rongji can deftly manage the upheaval, there will be fireworks of a much...
...Francisco Chronicle's office last Thursday, they were prepared for spicy, sugary violence over the loss of their favorite daily comic strip. A reader poll had shown Bill Griffith's "Zippy the Pinhead" to be unpopular despite having first appeared as a daily in San Francisco over fifteen years ago. Had the city changed so much that it could no longer tolerate the strip's non-conformist structure and idiosyncratic ramblings? Most of America doesn't understand "Zippy," the best daily comic strip printed today. Here's help...
...Britney? Well, Dartboard is concerned about her appearance. Though regular exercise has precluded any return of the infamous freshmen fifteen jiggle, fall semester’s late-night tomato-basil runs have impeded visible muscle definition. Yet Britney defies this—but not all—temptation. She does her miles, her lunges, her sit-ups and has the legs and stomach to prove it. Thus 2002, Dartboard decided, would be devoted to achieving the Britney...
...something this eccentric would come from the land of William Blake, the mystic poet and proto-comix artist, and Alan Moore, the mystic contempo-comix writer. Appearing mostly in the British small press (i.e. photocopied) scene, "Abe" gathers together almost fifty short pieces that have appeared over the last fifteen years. They all star Abe Rat, an ironically cruel name for a nebbishy character who mostly just wants to figure out what makes him happy...