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...find your faith? Zhang: When I was on the run in northeast China, I found my way to a village, and came to hide in the house of a Christian farmer ... He would ask me to read the Bible to him. His Bible was handwritten?transcribed with a fountain pen. I read him the Gospel of John. He treated me well, shared with me the little he had?even killed his chicken for me to eat ... It was at that time that I started believing there was a God in this world. Because if there wasn't, then this world...
...without compromising their social priorities?or losing their political souls. The inability to resolve that conundrum has bled France's once-mighty Communist Party to near extinction. Disgruntled working-class voters have increasingly sought ideological solace in Trotskyist movements?or defected to the thuggish populism of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. Other members of the leftist coalition have experienced a similar flight. The Green Party, for instance, found that the pragmatism required to be in government alienated many of its members, who had expected uncompromising policies. As elections neared, both the Communists and the Greens sought to exculpate...
...uniform and sewed on insignia he found at a secondhand market. He doesn't want to fight, but he is a soldier, so he has applied to the Ministry of Defense for a spot in the fledgling Afghan national army. In the meantime, Khalil can't afford the pen and notebook he promised his son for school, just as the Afghan government is unable to fulfill its promises of better days for Khoshal Khan A. But Khalil keeps building, his hopes slowly rising once again from the dust...
...Visually, the book is stunning. Going through it, you come to realize how much sense it makes to have it printed in the same way as a western art course book. McKean hits all the styles, from fuzzy iconic images like cave drawings, to representational pen and ink, to painterly abstract expressionism, up through photography and digital effects. But most important, it's all done at the service of a linear narrative, the definition of comix. When the painter meets a woman at a bar the graphics are laid out in clear rows of careful panels. As the couple relaxes...
...musicians among the richest and most successful artists in the world? Why then have the vocabulary, style and influence of black music been embraced in nearly every corner of the globe? Jackson needs to look a little closer to home to understand why fewer people are buying his recordings. Pen some decent tunes, and they will be bought. MARK KING London...