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...literally. Harvey Pekar, of "American Splendor," proffers a disturbing piece about his mental breakdown and the return of a malignant tumor. He ends with "I'm trying to work my way through. What else is there?" Mixing independent newcomers with such big-name artists as Frank Miller ("The Dark Knight Strikes Back,") "Happy Endings" has the most mainstream appeal of the four anthologies. Miller's darkly funny piece is one "happy" ending after another like, "Once we squished the last of the little ones, we knew everything would be great...
...Ironically enough, much of Naipaul's contempt is reserved for title-conscious ex-colonials. "Calcutta still has an isolated aging set with British titles," he writes. On St. Kitts, "the governor is a Negro knight from another island." And in Belize, "the Premier likes to use titles." These are unlikely observations from a Trinidadian of Indian descent who accepted a British knighthood with both hands. But, along with many other characterizations in this collection, they are from the archive. Naipaul has ceased to be so breezy and has stopped accepting the sort of assignments that in the past resulted...
...finalists were Knight and Jim Slemp, a high school principal from Eugene...
...Alessandro commended Knight for being “committed to the redesign” of CRLS, a process begun in 2000 in which the school district’s sole high school is dividing into five small schools, which are randomly assigned to students...
...know they are striving for academic achievement and equity in every school, and with that, we can’t lose...I want to be part of the change process,” Knight told The Boston Globe...