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...Drawn with a palette of black, gray and pale blue, Clyde Fans exudes a melancholy nostalgia. The first half of the book follows older brother Abraham, long retired, as he passes a lonely day. We see him take a bath, fix himself tea and move some boxes around, all while delivering a monologue about his days as a salesman. The second half follows brother Simon, 40 years earlier, on an unsuccessful attempt at opening new sales territory. Using nearly as many silent, atmospheric panels as there are panels of people talking, Seth creates a quiet, elegiac atmosphere. Deliberately pitching itself...
...would the Pajero, a popular SUV in Asia, suddenly become a booby prize? Because in recent months, Mitsubishi's former truck unit admitted to covering up a potentially lethal mechanical defect in its trucks; separately, Mitsubishi Motors launched a massive recall of its cars, including the Pajero, to fix defects that it had kept secret for more than a decade. As the scandal has widened, Japan's fifth largest carmaker has come to be seen as a case study of a self-serving corporation that systematically concealed safety problems to protect its brand. Mitsubishi's reputation has become so tarnished...
...that he keeps "the door open for anyone who wants to leave." And even Comaneci's iconic status was challenged in a recent book by Dick Pound, a former vice president of the International Olympic Committee, who attributed her high score in Montreal to Soviet judges putting in the fix for Bloc athletes. Despite the troubles, Romania placed second in team finals at the 2003 world championships. In what was her first-ever big international contest, Ponor won two silver medals. And last month, Romania won four out of six possible golds at the European championships, including the team title...
...Baathification committee took over, in the end of the year, it became politicized, and there were interpretations going well beyond what we had said the de-Baathification policy would be - people being thrown summarily out of work, particularly teachers, several thousand teachers and university professors. And it was to fix that particular point that we adjusted how those were handled in early April. That was only after I had spent two months trying to get the de-Baathification committee to conform to our original policy...
...Within weeks of that visit, Petraeus was back again, this time with a clear mandate to stay as long as it takes to fix the under-equipped, underpaid, and demoralized Iraqi security forces. "The President told me I could have anything I wanted, and I took him at his word," Petraeus told TIME during an hour-long interview this week in his office. As an economist with a doctorate from Princeton, Petraeus knew what he needed: Money, lots of it, and fast. During 14 months of occupation, U.S. forces had made several attempts to kick-start Iraq's military. Many...