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...Joyce Brabner (Four Walls Eight Windows; 1994) A pioneer in the form of autobiographical comix, Harvey Pekar and his "American Splendor" series recently became the basis for a hit independent film. This is his most serious and longest work, written in collaboration with his wife and drawn by Frank Stack, and is a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis...
...shambolic process: the political differences that paralyzed the Iraqi Governing Council will only be exacerbated now that the IGC's component parts are forced into open competition with one another for seats in the new assembly. Their political survival and prosperity now depends on their ability to stack the provincial nominating conventions with their supporters. For some, like the Kurdish parties that have a strong regional base, it's a relatively easy path. But for others, like the Pentagon-favored Iraqi National Congress of Ahmed Chalabi, which appears to have no significant regional or popular base...
...Analysts say that VW's reputation for durability isn't suffering as much in Europe; its cars stack up well against rivals from Opel, GM's European subsidiary, and France's Renault (and far better than Italy's Fiat and France's Peugeot). In the U.S., the benchmarks for high quality are Toyota and Honda, nameplates that haven't sold as well in Europe (though that's changing). But the Golf V and its variants are facing a tougher European marketplace. The Golf will take on a new Opel Astra, which launches early next year, and faces formidable foes...
Unfortunately, we live in a world where inheritance does exist and where wealth equals power. Competition only produces quality when everyone plays with the same hand of cards, but, ironically, the very self-interest that drives competition encourages the wealthy to stack the deck—and in American society, they have the power to do it. We would need truly radical social change before Smith’s analysis could be applied meaningfully to the real world...
...nature of both religious commitment and atheist conviction: neither is based on fact, neither is the product of exhaustive research. Both come as a result of an intuitive decision that involves acknowledging and listening to one’s own internal sentiments, which can easily be buried under a stack of books...