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Thus was born The Incredibles, a fantasy rooted in familiar family angst. The town has turned against superheroes--in part because of rising insurance premiums from unwanted rescues--so Mr. Incredible (voiced by Craig T. Nelson), his bride Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) and their kids Violet (Sarah Vowell) and Dash (Spencer Fox) have gone into some witless protection program. The Parrs, as they are known, now endure a subpar life. Dash is punished at school for flashing his gift of meta-speed. Violet, who can disappear, is invisible to the boy she adores. Mom, now called Helen, copes with raising...
...campaign spirit: The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore H. White (Pocket Books; 481 pages) The classic election read - a riveting account of one of the closest contests in U.S. history, and a manual for understanding American politics. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson (Flamingo; 480 pages) Thompson's gonzo take on Nixon's second campaign set the style for a generation of young reporters. The Right Nation: Why America is Different, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (Allen Lane; 450 pages) A deeply reported, dispassionate guide to the U.S.'s distinctively conservative...
...classes starting, I was made privy to the latest round of complaints from a hard-line troupe of villagers, wielding torches, as it were (not really). The planned expansion of grad school and faculty housing in the Riverside neighborhood apparently constitutes an infringement on our neighbors’ peaceable, hunter-gatherer way of life. All this from the cohort who two years ago delivered a fatal preemptive blow to hopes of a first-rate contemporary art museum on the Charles...
...classes starting, I was made privy to the latest round of complaints from a hard-line troupe of villagers, wielding torches, as it were (not really). The planned expansion of grad school and faculty housing in the Riverside neighborhood apparently constitutes an infringement on our neighbors’ peaceable, hunter-gatherer way of life. All this from the cohort who two years ago delivered a fatal preemptive blow to hopes of a first-rate contemporary art museum on the Charles...
...pages of a new, comprehensive CIA report on Iraq's alleged arsenal will be remembered for the colossal misjudgments that cost him his rule. The exhaustive detail compiled by the report's author, Charles Duelfer, chief U.N. weapons inspector in the 1990s and the Bush Administration's top hunter since January, richly fills in the previous portrait of a paranoid and brutal dictator who believed that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were the prime tools with which to advance his extravagant ambitions. Drawn from lengthy interrogations of the core Iraqi leadership and Saddam during their months in U.S. custody...