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...license to sell soap on Sundays - a small conglomerate bloomed. By the mid-1970s, Maponya's businesses included a chain of general stores, a butcher shop, a restaurant, a Coca-Cola plant, filling stations and a GM and BMW car dealership. "Richard Maponya is the real deal," says Michael Spicer, ceo of South Africa's Business Leadership forum, which advises government and big business on policy. "He cut his teeth at a time when it was exceptionally difficult for black Africans, and he did not do it in any facilitated way. Richard was black and rich and proud...
...Will the oversight committee investigate the Libby pardon? -Stephen Henslin, spicer, minn.I haven't decided. The commutation and pardon authority is exclusive to the President, and Congress has no role it in, but I still think we need answers...
...With the Crimson finally putting together series of plays instead of headers that turned into dead balls on the field, the bench stood up and the crowd loudly rallied behind a team that look like it might reverse its recent losing streak. But Princeton captain Darren Spicer quieted the bleachers with a header past Johnson to tie the game, 1-1. “If we had gotten the second goal it would be been in our favor, but they got one chance and used it,” Harvard coach John Kerr said. Still, the Crimson had turned around...
...know whether their children should play these games or not," says Chicago mom Michelle Nolan, 37, who keeps her family's PlayStation 2 system in her bedroom so she and her husband can monitor what their children play. And, needless to say, most youngsters consider regulation unnecessary. Alex Spicer, 16, of Orinda, Calif., says that he plays video games for five hours at a time on weekends and that he and his friends stop only for bathroom breaks. He's a huge fan of Halo 2, in which humans and aliens kill one another with guns, grenades and other weapons...
...term "graphic novel." The term "graphic novel," as it applies to the "long form comic book," was originally coined in November 1964 by Richard Kyle in a newsletter circulated to all members of the Amateur Press Association. The term was subsequently modified and used by Bill Spicer in his "Graphic Story Magazine" (a usage Spicer gained Kyle's approval for in advance). The first time a "long form comic book" was identified as a "graphic novel" was the 1976 publication of "Beyond Time and Again," by George Metzger, where the term "graphic novel" appears on the title page...