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...deliberately cartoonish - sometimes absurdly so. Canada's Prime Minister, Sir. John McDonald has a comically gigantic gibbous nose. Riel himself starts out rather normal in scale but after his enlightenment becomes huge, like the Hulk in a wool suit. In the final issue, Brown cites Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie" as a major influence, and the comparison is dead on. From the thin, uniformly weighted pen lines right down to the circles for eyes, Brown has updated Gray's technique to tell a true adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Really "Riel" History | 5/30/2003 | See Source »

...when he tells her that once they marry, she will not be allowed to sing in public. The other son, Audeh, has seven wives and 13 children--all girls. He has vowed to keep marrying until he gets a son, but someone proposes he adopt a couple of war-orphan boys. The astonishing simplicity of the idea stuns him into rationality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Half-Mad Iraqi Marvel | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...says. "The debate of the next century will be over militant Islam." His guide into this netherworld was Pearl, whom he calls a "posthumous friend" and to whom he ascribes many of his own characteristics: "A Jew of the left, a progressive ... a friend of the uncounted, the universal orphan, the disinherited." Pearl, Lévy says, was a firm believer in the possibility of a moderate Islam, one that Lévy himself sees in a battle to the death with radical believers from al-Qaeda. He follows the journalist as he pursues a shadowy figure named Mubarak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Engaged Intellect | 5/4/2003 | See Source »

Kosman, who is also a Crimson editor, says she began collecting books as an “absolution” for her grandfather, who, as an orphan would not have been able to collect the books himself...

Author: By Kaija-leena Romero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undergrads Rewarded for Book Collections | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

Kosman’s book collection, “‘To Arlie:’ An Intergenerational Collection of 20th Century Boys’ Books,” was dedicated to her grandfather, who grew up as an orphan in the 1920s and died at 40 years...

Author: By Kaija-leena Romero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undergrads Rewarded for Book Collections | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

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