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...about the liberties he has taken. Historians may still grumble. But the only charge of excess that sticks is that the author, who has mongered a few scandals himself, appears to have had too much fun filching haloes from heroes and relishing the bilious style of the Republic's pioneer hatchet...
...Allbaugh had limited access of ideas and people but never took any step to open things up. "This is a colossal f___up," said a Bush adviser. Said another: "By any measure, the campaign failed." "It's gone from 1 in 10 to 2 in 10," said a longtime pioneer. "But if McCain wins South Carolina, anything can happen...
...nearly 60 years, Lee, 77, was a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, a comics-world superstar and creative pioneer beloved of cultural critics and artists like Federico Fellini. Now, overseeing artists and techies at the Encino, Calif., offices of Stan Lee Media, the lanky, spry Lee is crafting his first new characters in 25 years--and recrafting himself as a new-media baron. "When I got into comics, it was the early days of the industry, and it was all new," says Lee. "Here's another chance for me to get in at the beginning...
...there was always Schulz. "Peanuts" was his life, and we followed its arc in the lines he drew for the strip: Tentative at first, in "Li'l Folks," the proto-"Peanuts" comic started for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1947; bold, strong and in control it its 1960s heyday (even Linus lookedsecure); ragged in its final years. Somehow, even though we all knew what to expect - and what an ultimate betrayal that would have been, for Lucy to actually let Charlie Brown kick that football - we were always interested in the whole neurotic gang, and now that Charles Schulz...
According to Stone Wiske, director of the Technology in Education program, Dede's experience as a senior program director for the National Science Foundation and a member of the U.S. Department of Education's expert panel on educational technology makes him a pioneer in his field...