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...Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, tears in his eyes, told the news conference, which erupted in cheers. "Iraq's future, your future, has never been more full of hope. The tyrant is a prisoner." From the first moment the American video of Saddam in custody began rolling, Iraqi journalists stood and screamed. Some yelled, "Kill him! Kill Saddam." The people of Baghdad caught the spirit of hope and pain, firing bullets into the sky and throwing candy, lighting firecrackers in the street. "They got Saddam!" "The devil is gone." It was like a wedding...
...time machine in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine were real, I'd use it to go back and stop the making of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a very bad movie based on a great graphic novel. (While I was at it, I'd probably sabotage the recent movie version of The Time Machine too.) Short of temporal travel, the only thing that could get rid of the bad taste of the film is a sequel to the graphic novel, a sequel even more brilliant than the original. Fortunately, we now have that...
Like the first volume, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II (DC Comics; 224 pages), is set in England in the 1890s and features an all-star supergroup culled from the pages of late-Victorian pulp fiction. Among the characters are Captain Nemo (the mariner of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde, and the sinister protagonist of The Invisible Man (another terrible movie). Writer Alan Moore and illustrator Kevin O'Neill pit them against the invading Martians of Wells' The War of the Worlds in a battle royal for the fate...
...Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,? Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, tears in his eyes, told the news conference, which erupted in cheers. ?Iraq?s future, your future, has never been more full of hope. The tyrant is a prisoner.? From the first moment the American video of Saddam in custody began rolling, Iraqi journalists stood and screamed. Some yelled, ?Kill him! Kill Saddam.? The people of Baghdad caught the spirit of hope and pain, firing bullets into the sky and throwing candy, lighting firecrackers in the street. ?They got Saddam!? ?The devil is gone.? It was like a wedding...
...talk, Mansfield wonders how many assaults happened at Harvard when he was here as an undergraduate. Although I’m willing to bet the actual numbers are shocking, I’m sure Mansfield imagines there were hardly any among Harvard’s “gentlemen...