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...cartoonists lost their jobs, just barely managing to find work in the burgeoning romance comicbook genre. By the late 1960s, inspired by, but excluded from, the all-male "underground" scene, women-centric comix began appearing simultaneously with the likes of "Ms." magazine. Finally, the last chapter provides an excellent primer on current women-created books, though it stops short of being a critical survey...
...feature deleted scenes, mini-documentaries, cast interviews and immersive environments to navigate through all the bonuses. Frequently, the supplementary material spills onto an extra disc. With so many titles released every week, it’s difficult to weed through and find the gems. Here is a little primer for the holiday season. Prices listed are the Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP), but often, record stores and online sellers mark down the price by about 25 percent...
...central issue of the living wage campaign now appears to be the practice of outsourcing. The preliminary report released by HCECP was in many ways a primer on the history of outsourcing at Harvard. In the past ten years, Harvard has begun to use outside contractors in place of a directly-hired workforce in areas such as security and custodial services, a change that has normally been accompanied by a significant decrease in wages and benefits for the outsourced workers. Nearly half of the living wage campaign’s recent newsletter was devoted to the perils that outsourcing poses...
...talk about how traumatized they all are. I want to say to them, 'I've been working seven days a week on this at the center of the trauma since Sept. 11!'" Courtney and her colleagues are so worried about the looming holiday that they are posting a special primer on their website to help families get through their gatherings unscathed...
...Potter series is so loved is because of Rowling’s intricate character and plot development and magical way of stirring the imagination. Therefore one of the film’s missteps is that it tries too hard to strike a balance between making the film a primer for fans new to Potter lore, yet simultaneously, assuming that its audience knows the complex history behind the characters. Aside from the prerequisite villain, the unpleasant characters that readers love to hate from the books don’t seem nearly as vile as they do in Rowling?...