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Pantheon, the publisher behind such serious-minded comic books as Persepolis, continues to lead the way. In February the house will release Posy Simmonds' GEMMA BOVARY, a graphic novel that updates the Flaubert classic, turning it into a satire on modern mores. In October the publisher will collect into a single volume the series Black Hole, Charles Burns' inky creepfest about a plague that infects teenagers during the 1970s. And the summer will see the release of The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar, a philosophically inclined French comic artist. Splashy comics from other publishers include Lost Girls (Top Shelf...
...revive the violence now? ETA wants to prove it is still operational despite the string of defeats and the deepened revulsion toward terror since March 11. "Before the parties sit down at the table, ETA wants to show it's coming from a position of strength," says Gemma Zabaleta, a Socialist M.P. in the Basque parliament. "The I.R.A. planted bombs while the governments negotiated." But observers like Gustavo de Arístegui, a Popular Party member of the Spanish parliament from the Basque Country, cast doubt on such comparisons: he argues that the I.R.A. followed Sinn Fein's political lead...
...GEMMA ZABALETA, Basque...
...Howard's anti-Asian immigration comments two decades ago. But even as the parties scrambled to out-fox and outspend each other, voters in marginals struggled to wade through the detail. "I know I should care about who's in charge of the country," said 22-year-old paramedic Gemma McMahon in Deakin, "but with work and study and running a household, I'm just too busy...
...city would be gutted if he left." GEMMA EDWARDS, 20, salesclerk in downtown Manchester, England, on the Manchester United soccer team's offer to trade David Beckham to Barcelona for a $50 million transfer...