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...recession to fight, but Republicans fret that when Bush opens the door slightly to a deficit, the Democrats will open it wider to pour in money for all their spending programs. The budget deficit could balloon and GOP congressmen would catch as much heat for the red ink as the Democrats...
...political reality. His skill at listening and bridging divides won him respect, and when Hume finally stepped down, Durkan ran unopposed (he joked that he was the "heir abhorrent"). Perversely, his very qualities of earnest decency may now be an electoral liability. The politicians who have won the most ink and plaudits as the peace process has lurched forward are not the responsible nice guys like Durkan, but the bomb throwers and rejectionists who have come in from the cold. In elections last summer, the S.D.L.P. slipped behind Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., for the first time...
...156cr, “Animation Workshop”), has a distinct drawing style that consists of careful, exquisite crosshatching. On the far wall of the space is a collection of his works, which come in all sizes, each carefully framed. Some are done in charcoal, pen and ink or pencil (only a few in color), while others look like etchings...
...wifelike status of Camilla Parker Bowles takes second place to burnishing his paternal image. Charles' aides were savvy enough to cooperate once the News of the World sought confirmation for its newest scoop, which meant his thoughtful handling of Harry and the drug-clinic visit got a lot more ink than Club H's bar and Charles' ignorance of his son's vigorous social life. COURAGE OF A WISE AND LOVING DAD was the paper's main editorial, widely echoed in the British press...
...According to the introduction by Eddie Campbell, also from the U.K. and whose "Alec McGarry" works have much in common with Dakin's, the black and white drawings are done directly in ink. This gives them a loose and spontaneous feel. Abe looks like a doodle of a scrawny nerd who lives in a scribbley universe. But a spontaneous execution should not be confused with careless content. Dakin organizes his pieces so that each panel has a thought accompanied by an illustrative picture. Sometimes they are literal and sometimes more expressionist, but they are always in service to the words...