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...many weighty topics, including AIDS and racism have found expression through its pages. In fact, comics have so effectively closed the gap between popular entertainment and literature that many critically acclaimed stories, such as Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns have found their way onto college literature syllabuses...
...Will international players gobble up Chinese portals in this era of e-depression? True, companies can find fast growth abroad. But for the U.S. giants, this might not be the easiest moment to make new investments. "We aren't in the business to be a white knight," says a senior Asia executive of a multinational Internet company. He says he is exploring options in China but is worried about offending officials who are likely to regard a foreign buyer with suspicion?even though such deals will be allowed once China gains entry into the World Trade Organization, which is expected...
HIRED. BOBBY KNIGHT, 60, preternaturally boorish and abusive basketball coach who was dismissed from Indiana University last September, after 29 years of service, for grabbing a student by the arm and violating a zero-tolerance behavior policy; as new head coach at Texas Tech, despite a faculty-written petition objecting to his appointment; in Lubbock, Texas...
...rest of us - those of us who know that professional jealousy and bitchy remarks about designer clothes make for far more riveting combat than full-body blows, who know that Miramax's eternal ability to buy itself a Best Picture nomination is far more consequential than Bobby Knight's eternal ability to find himself another job coaching, um, hockey? And thankfully, it now has its own bloated pre-game show: not ABC's paltry, sycophantic half-hour with "Entertainment Tonight"'s addled Julie Moran, but the E! Entertainment Network red-carpet coverage, which I joined sometime around...
...intuition to know when a girl wants to be approached." If that doesn't make him enough of a babe magnet, Fai has the hippest job around. He's a graphic designer, and already, at the tender age of 23, he has designed album covers for the knight and lady of the Canto-pop world, Nicholas Tse and Faye Wong...