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...Friday night the 15th annual Eisner Awards were handed out. Having been a judge who helped choose the nominees (see TIME.comix coverage) I got a front-seat, complete with complimentary chips and guac. Eisner himself handed out the awards, bounding up and down the stage in spite of being 86 years old. Neil Gaiman (best known for his "Sandman" series) opened the ceremony with a keynote speech. His "State of the Comics Nation," as he called it, was generally sunny. "I don't think we're doing that badly at all," he said. He felt that comix had graduated from...
...city where so many are getting a liberal arts education, it’s a question of where is the practical application,” Kavaney says. In spite of Cambridge’s overall affluence and educational accomplishment, a number of public school students still do not attend college, she says...
...watch Ray come up against the limits of his ability to make his life - his lives - make sense is moving; it's difficult to think of a more convincing depiction of the intimacy that prevails between married people and of the secrets they keep from each other in spite of that intimacy. Near the end of Mortals Ray ruefully reflects, "He had been an actor in a different play than the one he had thought he was in." What he learns is that we all have secret identities, and sometimes we keep that secret even from ourselves...
...spite of the long wait in line—the most die-hard fans had been waiting for nearly five hours—most autograph seekers were thrilled by the opportunity to meet Clinton...
Northeast Philly is not Northern Ireland. There are no political realities to the boundaries between Mayfair and Tacony. Residents in both neighborhoods pay the same property taxes, send their kids to the same schools and vote in the same elections. But in spite of the boundaries’ irrelevance—or maybe because of it—talk of Tacony’s borders soon leads to shouting...