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...L.S.E. share, but that bid was spurned by the L.S.E. Analysts think the eventual price will be at least $11.20, which would drive the total price up to $2.78 billion. But Euronext, which was founded in September 2000, is not about to give up without a fight. Euronext CEO Jean-François Théodore also met with Furse last week, and is said to have sweetened his deal by offering all cash. Some French analysts believe that despite its smaller size, Euronext might have a number of advantages over Deutsche Börse. Euronext already has 25% control...
...book released by Drawn and Quarterly, and "Epileptic," his extraordinary graphic novel just arriving from Pantheon Books, find visual metaphors for such elusive concepts as dreams, the forces of history, and illness. Both the comic and the novel find these metaphors through a powerful, moving account of his brother Jean-Christophe's debilitating epilepsy...
...Jean-Christofe's demon twists him into knots...
...what of Jean-Christophe? By the end of "Epileptic" he seems lost in a world of dependency and anger. "?Epileptic? changed my relationship with my parents and with my vision of my work. But with my brother, he's so ill that honestly I can't tell that it's changed anything," David B. says. But even if the power of art cannot transcend illness, "Epileptic" has the potential to change the way American audiences feel about French comics and graphic literature in general. It should not be missed by anyone with an interest in seeing the invisible forces that...
...conversant with every new development in fiction, philosophy, film and art. With the great turbines of her critical judgment turning, Sontag patrolled the latest edges of world culture, bringing back news of the philosophers Simone Weil and Walter Benjamin, the novelist Witold Gombrowicz, the critic Roland Barthes, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard...