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Pope has no pity for slow learners. By the time you read the first page, the main character, known as "S," has already stolen the volatile titular liquid from a criminal gang and begun to boil some of it up so he can drip it into his ear for its psychotropic properties. Thereafter it becomes a double cat-and-mouse tale as the gang hunts down "S" while "S" gets hired by an art collector to find a missing artist who can cast the liquid into a sculpture. Meanwhile, nobody really knows where this liquid comes from or what...
Like a lot of children's literature, these stories - sometimes spanning two issues - feature beloved objects that have come to life. The titular sock-monkey, named Uncle Gabby, and Mr. Crow, a cloth crow with button eyes, get into adventures by innocently imitating the adult world. The stories read like original Grimm's fairy tales - the ones where Cinderella's stepsisters hack away at their feet with an ax so they will fit the glass slipper. They have a romantic, quaint naïveté mixed with moments of modern existential horror...
RELEASED. CANAAN BANANA, 64, ex-President of Zimbabwe, after serving a jail term for sodomy; in Harare. A Methodist minister and professor of theology, Banana committed the acts while serving a seven-year term as titular President after the nation gained independence in 1980. Convicted on 11 counts of sodomy, Banana was released after serving eight months of a one-year sentence, getting time off for good behavior...
...hijacking Gore voters, although he appeals to Republicans and McCain voters as well as liberals. This is all new to the Greens. While a handful of Greens have been elected to local offices, for the most part their candidacies have been purely protest gestures. With Nader as their titular leader, they find themselves, perhaps, pivotal players in a presidential election...
...from South Korea, even suggest that the wording of the agreement, which calls for a summit between "heads of state" without specifically naming Kim Jong Il and Kim Dae Jung, leaves open the possibility that the North intends to humiliate the South by producing in the end only its titular head of state, the President of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Yongnam. To give the doubters their due, one must say that no one truly knows for sure what lies in the minds of North Korea's leaders. And the North's policies of interaction with the outside world...