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...eldest son of the country's founding patriarch, Lee Kuan Yew, had plenty of reasons to be happy. After 14 years as heir apparent, he was finally assuming a job for which in many ways he had been preparing all his life. His predecessor, Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister since 1990, has handed Lee a remarkable legacy. A few days earlier, the government announced that GDP growth for the first half of the year was a booming 10%?a signal that Singapore is finally shaking off a malaise sparked by the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and extended by last...
...Eightball" #23 (Fantagraphics Books; 40 pages; $7), continues Clowes' ever more remarkable maturation as an artist with the single-issue story, "The Death Ray." Two years ago, "Eightball" #22 gave us an Altman-esque fractured look at the strange residents of suburbia (see TIME.comix review). Like its predecessor, number 23 is divided into multiple vignettes, but this time it focuses exclusively on the life of one character. Clowes takes the traditional superhero motifs - extraordinary powers, special gadgets, the sidekick, and the origin story - but eliminates the "super" and the "hero." Instead we get Andy, AKA The Death Ray, a drip...
...Will moviegoers mind the flaws? Perhaps not. The Bourne Identity was a huge hit (and the No. 1 home-video rental title of last year). Audiences are primed for more of the same, and on a certain level, this sequel quite stylishly delivers what they liked about its predecessor. Those car chases - especially a climactic one through the streets of Moscow - have panache and originality. But all really good movies need to stop for breath occasionally - so we can catch ours and, if we?re lucky, make some sort of emotional connection with their characters. That doesn?t have...
This convention has seized on many of the themes that dominated its predecessor 12 years ago and propelled little-known challenger Bill Clinton to the White House. And it has embraced the Clinton legacy in a major way besides...
...organ failure, two days before his second six-year term was to end; in Vienna. While in office, he spoke out against Austria's Nazi complicity during World War II and expressed sympathy for Holocaust victims during a trip to Israel, helping improve bilateral relations after revelations that his predecessor, Kurt Waldheim, had served in the Nazi military...