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...televised address, referenced the film?s famous scene - of President George W. Bush, in a Florida school room, flummoxed by a whispered word of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center - by charging that Bush ?was more interested in listening to the child?s story about the goat rather than worry about what was happening to the Towers...
DISCOVERED. The ARUNACHAL MACAQUE, a previously unknown species of monkey; in the forests of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The stocky, brown-haired primates, who have distinctively dark facial markings and short tails, are the first new macaques to be discovered since 1903. In recent years, three deer and goat species foreign to India have been discovered in the remote northeastern state, which conservation scientist M.D. Madhusudan calls the country's "last unknown frontier...
...themes. Most of the stories in Men and Cartoons play in the nerdier realms of comic books and science fiction--one revolves around a mysterious aerosol spray that reveals lost belongings and lost lovers; another recounts the sad, seedy later life of a retired comic-book hero named Super Goat Man. But while Chabon builds his book on the sturdy narrative architecture of the mystery novel, Lethem's stories stay literary in their bones, maybe too much so. They eschew the satisfying finales of commercial fiction in favor of tremblingly ambiguous, go-nowhere nonendings that are either ineffably poignant...
...their children. And in a dig described by one U.S. official as "more personal" than the criticisms leveled in previous bin Laden tapes, he taunted Bush with the fact, popularized by Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, that the President sat for seven minutes in a classroom reading "The Pet Goat"after learning about the 9/11 attacks. "This gave us three times the time needed to carry out the operations, thanks be to God," he said...
Breuer, who played “Goat Boy” on “Saturday Night Live,” drew laughter—and the occasional groan—with a sometimes crude performance before a crowd of just under 700 students from Harvard and other Boston-area schools...