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...creatures, his efforts seemed like folly. But the series grew into an award-winning favorite of cool kids and hip adults. Now finished and collected as a 1,300-page softcover (Cartoon Books), Bone combines the humor and look of early Disney movies with the scope of the Lord of the Rings cycle. A former animator, Smith draws characters that are both cute and scary, and he infuses every panel with dynamic energy. While children will read Bone for its breathless adventure and sight gags, older kids and adults will appreciate the themes of blind fanaticism and corrupting power...
...Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that airplanes would never be useful in battle against a fleet of ships. There's nothing like the passage of time to make the world's smartest people look like complete idiots. So let's look at a few more. In 1883 Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society and no mean scientist himself, predicted that "X rays will prove to be a hoax." When Gary Cooper turned down the Rhett Butler role in Gone With the Wind, he is said to have remarked, "I'm just glad it will be Clark Gable...
...years as their spiritual leader, he was leaving not only them but also their denomination, the Episcopal Church U.S.A. Weeping, he explained that the church's attitude toward gays, which he termed its "immoral crisis," had led him to "the conclusion that I can no longer serve the Lord as an Episcopal priest." Instead, he would begin two new alliances: one with Frank Lyons, the conservative Anglican Bishop of Bolivia, enabling Beach to end-run the Episcopal American hierarchy in favor of its parent Anglicanism; and the other as pastor of a brand-new church--largely financed, it was later...
...invite me into their homes, reminisce about arguments they used to have with their union friends over whether to vote for Nixon, and maybe offer me a Dolly Madison or two before talking for as long as they could keep me captive. And they vote. Lord do they vote. Every last one of them. In fact, a good half of them serve as election judges, which makes them the lynchpin of the entire electoral process, a thought that’s both reassuring and mildly alarming. I met a woman...
...three years, undercover cop Yan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) has worked for Mob lord Sam (Eric Tsang). Sam's plant in the Hong Kong Triad Police Bureau is Ming (Andy Lau), whose commander, Wong (Anthony Wong), has been after Sam for most of his career. When the cops try to bust one of Sam's drug deals, both sides realize they are internally compromised. Yan and Ming must walk a fine line, getting information to their true bosses while hiding their own identities from their duped colleagues. Sometimes the only way to achieve that is by killing an ally...