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...with the dull roar surrounding the recent release of “21”, based on Ben Mezrich’s (already not-quite-true) account of MIT’s card-counting Blackjack Team. Based on the trailer alone, one can tell the production team knows well mainstream America’s unflagging yen for aesthetically pleasing Caucasians cavorting in shiny cities and beating all odds (Ocean’s 11 through 16, would you stand up please...
...those publishers. But more importantly, it has just as many shelves of collected editions from them. If you want the back story on most superheroes, you can easily find it there.Manager Matt P. Reyes says he tries to order “indie” comics, but the more mainstream titles are far more prevalent. He also says people come in to say what comics they’ve read and ask for recommendations, but that such walk-ins are not their bread and butter.“How we stay afloat is by branching out more into pop culture...
...security forces, interrupted, albeit briefly, by the 2001 massacre of eleven members of the royal family allegedly at the hands of the king's own son. A peace deal brokered two years ago brought the remnants of the monarchy to its knees and the Maoists into the political mainstream, but efforts to further the process along have been marred throughout by political squabbling and vigilante violence. In the run-up to yesterday's elections, at least 60 people were killed. Reports filtered in every day of bombings, kidnappings, and armed thugs-especially from the Young Communist League, a Maoist youth...
...fund their own health care or learn English is appalling," wrote a blogger who signed as Diana Jorgensen. However, Mexican intellectuals view the re-conquest as cultural rather than military, talking with satisfaction over the fact people in California are speaking Spanish and eating enchiladas. No one in the mainstream of Mexican politics seriously contemplates an offensive northward. Mexico City car mechanic Santiago Gomez finds the ad funny, but would prefer California to be in U.S. rather than Mexican hands. That's because he plans to move to Los Angeles later this year to work with a friend already there...
...pastor in Jerusalem from a mainstream church expressed skepticism about the motives of the Christian Zionists - and of the cynicism of Israelis who play along. "It's the worst kind of anti-Semitism," says the cleric, who asked to remain anonymous given the sensitivity of the issue. "At the end, these Evangelicals say that all the Jews will be dead except those who become Christians. But in the meantime, the Israelis are happy to fill their hotels with them and use their help to get American weapons...