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...symbolically handsome. The world of comics was a form of visual shorthand, so that the average hero need not have been handsome in fact, so long as his face was held to the required arrangement of lines that readers had been taught to be the accepted sign of handsome: sharp, slanting eyebrows, thick at the ends, thinning out toward the nose, of which in three-quarter view there was hardly any - just a small V placed slightly above the mouth, casting the faintest nick of a shadow. One never saw a nose full view. There was never a full view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Mad Need a Museum? | 2/3/2007 | See Source »

...School process has been in sharp contrast to many expansion plans by the University, and has, in many ways, been a model process,” said Joel Bard, a local resident and activist, at a Cambridge Planning Commission meeting late last year...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Under Kagan, A Harmonious HLS | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...Puebla (UDLA) following a series of controversial cartoons and opinion columns criticizing the university administration.According to the editor-in-chief of La Catarina, Sergio Zepeza, the administration has butted heads with the paper ever since its inception in 2000, and the animosity escalated with the paper’s sharp criticism of the university’s chancellor, Pedro Palou. Yet Zepeza said he was shocked when he saw four members of the administration accompanied by four security guards enter the paper’s office on Jan. 17, only two hours after he said he received an e-mail...

Author: By Marie C. Kodama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Say Mexican Paper Was Censored | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...died Wednesday evening after a seven-year battle with inflammatory breast cancer, was one of the most notable transplanted Texans of recent years and, like her good friend the late Gov. Ann Richards, she came to embody a certain kind of Texas woman - passionate, funny, her wit folksy but sharp, sparing no one, not even herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Molly Ivins, 1944-2007 | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...last day of Ashura is marked by the spilling of blood. This time, the flails are tipped with razor-sharp blades the shape of elongated hearts. This time, it's public. The penitents march through the streets in orderly rows and pause in front of the shrine. Again the mournful chanting, and the whipping begins, blades flashing in the sun. The air is thick with the metallic edge of fresh blood. It is as much a public spectacle as a demonstration of faith. "Everyone who watches is mourning for Hussein as well," says Ali Hosseini, an 18-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Affirming a Faith Bathed in Blood | 1/30/2007 | See Source »

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