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...burgeoning trend in comix: small, boutique publishers who have found the gospel of production values. Presses like Avodah and AdHouse are now giving lush, full-color, square-bound, heavy-paper-stock treatment to those artists who only recently knew only photocopy carbon and staples. Leapfrogging comix into the realm of fine arts, this new attention to the aesthetics of the book as art object means to both "legitimize" formerly obscure artists and appeal to a broader audience that demands more than just comix for its money...
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has long displayed a reverence--or obsession, depending on your point of view--for the Ten Commandments. The Scripture has been a good calling card for Moore, gaining him notoriety far beyond the realm of circuit-court judges after he first decorated his courtroom in 1995 with a hand-carved rosewood plaque bearing God's laws. He prevailed over civil libertarians who sued for its removal, and rode his fame even further in 2000, when he was elected chief justice of Alabama's supreme court on the slogan "Roy Moore: Still the Ten Commandments Judge...
...these God-obsessed terrorists, the imperative to free Iraq is profound. The country is in the heartland of Dar al-Islam, the true realm of the faith, not some backwater like Afghanistan. For 500 years, Baghdad was home to the Caliph, the leader of all Muslims, the equivalent of both Pope and King. For them, U.S. occupation of this land is an existential affront. Now they must prove their core claim that they, not the corrupt potentates of the region, are the true defenders of the faith. That requires the radicals to bloody the Americans--the more savagely, the better...
...Dark tones are as powerful for me as colors," Adjaye explains. "Shadow is just as important as light. In the modernist canon, light equals well-being. But I think it's sad that certain colors have been relegated to the realm of noncolor because of superstitious and simplistic associations...
...FOLL0WING THE MONEY Ever since 9/11, the fight over turf has been peaceful compared with the fight over money. While people often think the CIA director controls a vast intelligence empire, his realm pales in comparison with that of the Secretary of Defense. The CIA administers only about 15% to 20% of the annual intelligence budget. The rest is in the hands of the Pentagon, which has long had the final say over where the satellites go to spy and where the eavesdropping ships drop anchor and listen. But just when it makes sense to give the CIA director more...