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Somehow, though, you knew that the fate of the universe would hang on the outcome of a kung-fu fight between Neo and Smith. It comes at the end on and above city streets in a slow, heavy rain. The trilogy ascends and soars with the two combatants and ends not with a whimper but with a blast of light...
...Characters like Mandy are easy to ridicule, and in Nell Freudenberger's short story The Orphan, part of her debut collection, Lucky Girls, the author satirizes with efficiency, content to let her targets hang themselves with their own words. But Freudenberger is after more than the easy comedy of young Americans in old Asia. She seeks the unseen forces that bind together families?both biological and artificial?no matter how far apart their individual members roam. At the orphanage where Mandy works with AIDS-afflicted children, the suddenly tender daughter hands an infant to her squeamish, confused mother, Alice...
...lunchtime in Qiandaohu, a tiny fishing and tourist town deep in China's coastal Zhejiang province. While visitors are off exploring the famous local lake and its 1,000 green islands, residents hang out at the new KFC?the only fast-food restaurant in a place better known for its freshwater shrimp and fish. Hu Hongyi, a 30-year-old accountant, brings his wife and 10-month-old son to the eatery every three or four days. "I like the flavors and it's reasonably priced," he says. Local high school student Wang Hongting, another KFC habitu?, says, "The food...
...There will be resistance from the traditional military. Indeed, there has been a running battle within the Pentagon about how and whether to do peacekeeping. "I used to say that they should hang a sign outside the building, REAL MEN DON'T DO PEACEKEEPING," General John Shalikashvili, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told me. In the 1990s, Shalikashvili conducted an uphill campaign to change that. "I tried to establish a Department of Peacekeeping at the Army War College," he added, "but there was resistance-and to this day the doctrine remains that the best peacekeepers...
...spontaneous sleight-of-hand marketing. "[The phrase] 'graphic novel' was kind of accidental," Eisner said. While pitching the book to an important trade-book editor in New York, says Eisner, "a little voice inside me said, 'Hey stupid, don't tell him it?s a comic or he'll hang up on you.' So I said, 'It's a graphic novel.'" Though that particular editor wasn't swayed by the semantics, dismissing the book as "comics," a small publisher eventually took the project and put the phrase "A Graphic Novel" on the cover, thereby permanently cementing the term into...