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...President might pluck from corporate America a CEO with little formal finance background to run the Fed, as he did with John Snow at Treasury. The most likely candidates, though, are Martin Feldstein, a Harvard professor and former head of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, who ran the CEA during much of Bush's first term; and Ben Bernanke, just nominated to be the new CEA chief...
...then Senator [Bob] Packwood heard I had these things, and said they ought to be put in the Smithsonian. So I looked, but I decided that they'd wind up behind some stuffed owl. Then Glenn Campbell of the Hoover Institution [of War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University] wanted 'em, so I gave 'em to him. A few months later, I got an appraisal from Sotheby's for a deduction on my income tax. Well, since then I've been fighting the IRS. This Wednesday we're having a hearing. Seems they sent the films to Ray Hackie...
...Huizenga would be best served by starting with "Or Else" #2, which contains his most sustained, complex story. A small novella - at 96 half-sized pages - titled "Gloriana," it again weaves different timelines together, along with the fantastic and the ordinary. The girlfriend of "NST '04" has become Glenn's wife, Wendy Caramel-Ganges, and the two are expecting a child. In one witty and surprising sequence Glenn lays his hands on Wendy's belly but he says he can't feel it kick. Magically she transfers the pregnancy to him. "How about now," she asks...
Following these playful domestic scenes, Huizenga dedicates the middle of the book, 22 pages in all, to capturing a single moment, a split second, when Glenn, sitting in the library, watches a feather fall outside the window and becomes blinded by the setting sun. At first the panels evoke the hushed atmosphere of whispers and books sliding out of shelves. As the time becomes more compressed so do the panels, which contain increasingly abstract, fragmented images of birds, circles and strange creatures that seem out of a vision. All of this culminates in a double-sized page that you must...
...Gloriana" ends with a strange encounter between Glenn and his next-door neighbors. The rising moon appears large and red on the horizon, a site his neighbors take as a sign of the apocalypse. Glenn attempts to disillusion them with a lengthy scientific explanation, which Huizenga depicts in a series of textbook-like drawings. These contrast with his figure style, which has a vague resemblance to the work of E. C. Segar and his "Popeye" characters with their soft shoulders and simplified faces. Huizenga concentrates less on the particular details of a panel in favor of its overall design...