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...open letter to the Harvard community, Bok wrote that he intends to “appoint an advisory committee this fall...with the goal of identifying a successor before Sid steps down...
...Sid Verba, I am one of his great admirers,” Bok wrote in an e-mail. “He is someone who has always done much more than he was asked to do and has never refused a request to go beyond the call of duty to help us out when we needed...
...significant is that? "The money we save on taxes pays for nearly an entire year of rent here," marvels Max Ferrero, 69, who operated a string of car dealerships in northern France before retiring in 2001. Sitting in the shade of his garden a mere 50 m from the Sid el Abed beach ("Sable d'Or" to the new locals) south of Rabat, Ferrero motioned to the 240-sq-m villa he and partner Cathy Conticello have lived in since last March. "We're not rich - we could never afford something like this in France," says Ferrero, who counts half...
...Baghdad (DC/Vertigo; 128 pages; $20), written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Niko Henrichorn, examines the moral ambiguities of the Iraq War through a fictional account of four lions wandering the bombed-out streets of Baghdad; The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation (Hill and Wang; $17), by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon, has become a surprise hit, touching a nerve on the fifth anniversary of the attacks. Though one book uses fiction and the other fact, both are interested in finding new ways for comix to explore current events...
...plot of September 11, government efforts (or the lack thereof) to foil the plot, a timeline of the events of the day, and conclusions about what went wrong and how be better prepared for the future. The 585-page original has been reduced to 130 pages by Sid Jacobson, who, along with illustrator Erni Colon, boils down the contents into digest form without losing the substance...