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...imagined by Tardi, Nestor Burma has an ovular face with two dots for eyes and a permanent scowl. In profile, his face appears flat, like a blank wall, except for a bump of a nose and a pipe sticking out of a mouth that never opens, even when speaking. Tardi works in the classic French bandes dessinee style (a close match to the work of Japanese comix master Osamu Tezuka, incidentally) with near-photographic reproductions of backgrounds that the flat, "cartoonish" characters inhabit. The "Tintin" mysteries by Herge are the most famous example of this style, which Tardi updates with...
...last summer. He discovered that students can obtain summer memberships for $150, and took advantage of the club as a base in the city during his summer internship commute. He raves about the “incredible competition-level squash courts,” the exercise machines equipped with flat screen televisions, and the “beautiful common rooms...
Aaron S. Byrd: It’s terrible. It flat-out is terrible. Chick-Fil-A is a flat-out fast food place. Now we have those fancy burritos and fancy pizzas, but we don’t have fast food. I think it says something about the lack of communication with Harvard Dining Services...It is a travesty that Chick-Fil-A is not there anymore. It is a travesty that we do not have Taco Bell instead of tacos...
...Staying power is not all that the new aircraft has going for it. An array of design and service innovations accompany its unveiling, including fully enclosed flat beds, first-class suites, and "room service" whereby passengers phone their orders through to the galley and are served the meals in their seats at a time of their choice. Those with a low boredom threshold or restless children can find diversion in a staggering 500-plus entertainment channels, while a novel lighting system that Emirates describes as "revolutionary" will gently coax passengers' body clocks into a rhythm that minimizes...
Three-time Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman speaks for most of the North American elite when he condemns “these anti-WTO protesters—who are a Noah’s ark of flat-earth advocates, protectionist trade unions and yuppies looking for their 1960s fix.” Yet, even within the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, there are some new voices admitting that the Friedman world view and policy prescriptions have led to misery for much of the world. In many Ivy League economic circles and among the Business Roundtable...