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Acclaimed for his illustrated books The Lost Thing (2000) and The Red Tree (2001), the Australian artist, illustrator and writer Shaun Tan took an enormous leap in recognition two years ago with the publication of The Arrival, his miraculous, wordless graphic novel, executed entirely in sepia-tinted drawings of breathtaking beauty and originality. It went on to bag a clutch of prestigious awards and became a New York Times best-selling children's book...
...post-Christmas bargain-hunting. Market research company Synovate forecasts a drop of 7.3% on shopping trips in December. Says Tim Denison, a retail psychologist and director of Synovate, which has used the same matrix to predict retail trends since 1995: "We haven't seen a figure like that leap out of our Christmas forecasts ever." (See Top 10 Black Friday Gifts...
...commencement date—in 2009, graduating seniors will receive their diplomas on June 4—is more than two months after the deadline for entering the lottery for the much-coveted H-1B visas. In the not-too-distant past, graduates of the College were able to leap this bureaucratic hurdle by submitting a letter from the Dean of Harvard College to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in lieu of an actual diploma. This allowed many graduating seniors with job offers to effectively compete in the visa lottery. This practice, which had been commonplace during the tenure...
...symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. The language of the Sermon on the Mount - if someone hits you, turn the other cheek - he's making a creative leap, and that's the death of an old way of thinking and the birth of a completely new way. Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity...
Indonesia watched its new anti-pornography law leap into action last weekend, as police raided a Jakarta nightclub and arrested three employees. The officers, according to the Kompas daily, detained three erotic dancers in the raid - the first arrests based on the controversial law since it passed last week by an overwhelming majority in Parliament. The women now face up to 10 years in prison...