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...this year at least, attendees totally scored. Several publishers had advance copies of books that amounted to a summer comix reading list. The biggest draw at the festival must have been Craig Thompson?s ?Blankets? (Top Shelf; $29.95). A giant, 500+ page graphic novel about growing up in Wisconsin, it has generated a tremendous amount of buzz, causing swarms of people to hover around the artist and his mountain of books. A deep and powerful work, it tells the story of a teenager growing up in an austere, fundamentalist Christian family. His struggles with faith and self-identity...
...came as little surprise when health authorities traced the outbreak to 28 prairie dogs in Milwaukee, Wis., destined to become household pets, that had come into contact with an infected giant Gambian pouched rat while in transit with a distributor. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson announced an embargo on the importation of all rodents from Africa and a ban on the sale and transfer of pet prairie dogs within...
...biographies, though after her death in 1980 the gates opened. One former Orwell girlfriend told Taylor he was the eighth biographer to approach her. There have been at least as many Orwell detractors. Hitchens spends his entire book ably rescuing the author from critics both left (E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams) and right (T.S. Eliot, Norman Podhoretz) who felt he slighted their causes or supported things - like virulent anti-communism - that he didn't. Hitchens has a more difficult time explaining away the list of 35 "crypto-communists" Orwell gave to British intelligence in 1948; the defense that...
...call witnesses like Binalshibh. Meanwhile, at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where most of the captured al-Qaeda members are being held and any military tribunals will take place, discussion has begun about the possible need to build an execution chamber. --By Viveca Novak and Mark Thompson...
While Dennis F. Thompson, chair of the University Physical Planning Committee (UPPC)—the Harvard-wide faculty committee charged with investigating scenarios for Allston planning—said at the beginning of the year that Summers and the Corporation were aiming to have some direction by the end of the summer...