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...narrative that received sharp criticism, the comix adaptation adheres to the non-partisan tone of the original book - for better or worse. For the better it avoids messy editorializing. For the worse it loses the engagement of telling a single story. It begins with what journalists call a "tick-tock," a minute-by-minute accounting of the hijacking of the planes. Cleverly, Jacobson and Colon use the graphic abilities of the form to show each plane's story in four parallel timelines running across the pages. The appalling lack of communication can thus be seen on a single page...
...Tick Tock," by David Warsh at Economic Principals "Should Harvard University president Lawrence Summers travel this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as he usually does, he'll find that the hottest item in the snowy little Alpine village is the international edition of Institutional Investor — the one with the cover story, 'How Harvard Lost Russia: The inside story of what happened when the enormous power and resources of the United States government were put in the wrong hands.'" [Read the Institutional Investor story here...
...Subtitled "A chronicle of 62 days in the life of the American Republic - March 4 - May 4, 1865," the book is a tick-tock of the events from the day of Lincoln's second inauguration to his burial. Using an authoritative voice-over narrative style, Geary carefully plots out the chronology of Lincoln's final days. In a typically compact opening sequence, excerpts from Lincoln's famous, conciliatory address, "With malice toward none; with charity for all..." get intercut with scenes that establish its historical context and Lincoln's fatalistic attitude about his own safety. The book then shifts...
...Tick-tock. Tick-tock. The holiday clock is winding down, and you've still got holes in your shopping list. Don't give up and go to the mall. You still have time to let your fingers do the shopping on the World Wide Web--if you're willing to put your faith in the shipping gods and you know where online to look. Here's our guide to the best last-minute shopping sites...
...says Dr. Balaji Sadasivan, Singapore's Minister of State for Health and the Environment. It paid another dividend: authorities got an early warning that most victims were getting sick after visiting hospitals with known SARS patients. "The moment we realized hospitals were the most dangerous place, we designated Tan Tock Seng [Hospital] as a SARS-only hospital and shut it down to all other patients," says Sadasivan...