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...thing that will astonish you most about Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" is not that it is a graphic work published by a major trade house (Pantheon, an imprint of Random House). Nor will it be the luxurious quality of the production - a hardcover with a die-cut dust-jacket that lets a character peek through from the cover. Instead, "Persepolis" (153 pp.; $17.95) will zap you with its story. A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, "Persepolis" provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life. It has the strange quality...
ORANGE. Color of juice, regardless of flavor, that child upends on your beige jacket on the morning you have a presentation to clients...
...gets off a train in a small town in provincial France. He has a bad complexion and an aggressive beard and wears a tough-guy leather jacket. He is Milan (Johnny Hallyday, the durable French rock star), and he is a thief, in town to meet his gang and rob a bank...
...also believe in free markets. If, for example, Brazilians don’t like Big Macs, they’re not obligated to change their tastes. National Review’s Jonah Goldberg uses this analogy: “If the coolest guy in school wears a leather jacket and all the other kids follow suit, that’s hardly the same thing as the coolest guy forcing them at gunpoint to buy a leather jacket...
...Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress. He would not be attending in the morning--in many quarters there is deep opposition to him as a Pentagon puppet--but Garner wanted a chance to hear Chalabi's take on the situation. Pressed and proper in a tie and herringbone jacket, despite more than a week of living in a crumbling warehouse, Chalabi told the American proconsul the looting must be stopped so that citizens would feel safe. "We do not want Iraqis turning to Americans to solve their problems," Chalabi said. He wants Iraqis going to other Iraqis for help...