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...favored by the Italian Cardinals, who are eager to take back the papacy. Short, pudgy and quick to smile, the Milan leader has few enemies - a miraculous accomplishment in Vatican circles - and seems to win friends across the ideological spectrum. A moral theologian believed to have helped pen the Pope's seminal 1995 document on bioethics, Tettamanzi has strong conservative credentials. But he has also spoken out against the mistreatment of immigrants and in support of antiglobalization demonstrations. Progressive groups such as the Community of Sant'Egidio like him - yet so does the archtraditionalist Opus Dei. He can reach...
...playfully serious. (Tezuka takes the Middle Path!) Much of this comes from a uniquely Tezuka form of comix making. The characters have a simplified, "cute" design but inhabit a highly detailed, realistic environment - a style that became the foundation of the manga look. Recalling traditional Japanese landscapes, with careful pen and ink craftsmanship Tezuka depicts mountain vistas and waterfalls. In one remarkable scene a swarm of locusts fills an entire two-page spread...
...only following Gore’s defeat in the 2000 election that Attie decided to make the transition from real politics to entertainment politics. Soon after helping Gore pen his highly-praised concession speech, Attie signed on as a writer for “The West Wing...
...based, a process that offered some sharp insights into my intellectual shortcomings but revealed absolutely nothing about Coetzee himself. All my questions were similarly treated, and I wound up sounding like a reporter for a fanzine. "What kind of music do you like?" I asked, desperately. The pen scratched, the great writer cogitated. "Music I have never heard before," he said...
Barbarians alone was enough to earn Coetzee literature's ultimate accolade, but there were many more great novels in his pen, foremost among them Life and Times of Michael K (1983), the first of his two Booker prizewinners, and Foe (1986), the story of an Englishwoman who, stranded on a desert island, struggles desperately to communicate with a black slave whose tongue has been cut out. On its face, the novel is a retelling of the Robinson Crusoe fable, but in its depths I discerned something else entirely, the most profound book ever written about race relations in a society...