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...find books of abstract comic art, critically-acclaimed fictional graphic novels, and works of autobiography.The idea of going the extra mile to give information to an interested but uninformed buyer is key to Picnic’s business. “With underground comics, we took a different tack,” Davis says. Take the cult hit series “Eightball,” by Daniel Clowes. “The idea was to say, ‘Did you like ‘Eightball’ #5? We have #1, too.’ That...
...quorum number is more a result than a cause of lower participation, although there’s likely to be a feedback loop between them,” he said. But James H. Stock, chair of the Economics department and fellow scholar of human incentive, took a slightly different tack than either Sidanius or Ambrus in his own impromptu cost-benefit analysis of the newly proposed policy. “I think an argument can be made that reduction of the quorum is likely to increase turnout,” Stock said. “Because any Faculty member...
...announcement was expected to be made by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 19-year-old son of Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated last December during campaigning for the parliamentary poll. Party officials said Bhutto Zardari was feeling unwell, but some observers speculate that his absence may have been a tack to spare him from answering questions about reported PPP infighting over the premiership. Bhutto Zardari is a student at Oxford, as his mother and politician grandfather were before him, and he became the co-chair of the PPP days after his mother's murder. But the young Bhutto Zardari has played...
...Florida and Michigan primaries but trails Obama in the delegate count, she's the earnest champion of voters like Bander. She backed the idea of revotes in Florida and Michigan; but this week rejected a compromise solution offered by Democratic state Senators in Florida that would take the GOP tack and reinstate half the delegates (giving Clinton 63 and Obama 42) and perhaps divide the other half equally between the two candidates or divvy them based on the popular vote that has so far been tallied nationally. Clinton insists instead that short of a full revote, all the Florida...
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