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...timing has little to do with Valentine's Day and much to do with the distance between now and the signal royal event of the past 50 years: the death of you-know-who. In the convulsion of grief after Princess Diana's 1997 car accident, Parker Bowles--whom Diana outed as Prince Charles' extramarital lover in a 1994 television interview--became the most hated person in Britain; in one infamous incident, she was chased from her local grocery store by shoppers pelting her with bread rolls. For two years after Diana's death, Charles and Camilla were too radioactive...
...Glory and Grief I was dismayed by the title of Charles Krauthammer's essay "Shock and Awe" [Jan. 24]. That was the name used by the U.S. military for massive bombings and missile attacks on Iraq at the start of the invasion. Krauthammer referred to the shock of the tsunami and marveled at humanity's overwhelming generosity in response to the disaster, but using a phrase associated with the Iraq war was unfortunate. His commentary ignored the misery and destruction of war. The tsunami was a natural disaster; the Iraqi tragedy was man-made. Renee Arazie Aventura, Florida...
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Krauthammer said, "The Tsunami that destroyed thousands of lives from Sumatra to Somalia engendered an instant, near universal outpouring of concern, shared grief and charitable giving." In the case of the U.S., however, it was hardly instant. President Bush took three days to personally acknowledge the disaster, and when he did, the amount he initially pledged--$15 million--was less than half what his supporters paid for his Inaugural festivities...
...white experimental comics (recently compiled as The Collected Sequential). He soon began integrating color into his increasingly sophisticated works, and early last year he released his first graphic novel, Mother, Come Home, the story of a boy struggling to cope with his mother's death and his father's grief. The book, which features a bold visual design and a narrative that is by turns cerebral and heartfelt, set the tone for The Three Paradoxes. The artist says his main goal is "basically, just ask a lot of questions." There's no question about his talent. --By Andrew D. Arnold...