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...digital age via the newly established Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation. "We will be tapping into the great mythic storytelling in India to create a whole new library in character entertainment," Branson told Time. "It is Bollywood meets Marvel meets manga." In July, Virgin Comics plans to unveil four graphic novels based on Hindu legends to the U.S., Indian and British markets. As Sharad Devarajan - ceo of the U.S.-based Gotham Entertainment Group, the largest publisher of comics in South Asia and a collaborator with Branson - puts it, the goal is to create "the next wave of global mythology...
...teachers have been fighting for the attention of students, principals and policymakers. The policymakers, it seems, are starting to listen. After calling it imperative in his State of the Union speech that U.S. students receive a "firm grounding in math and science," President George W. Bush is expected to unveil $380 million in science-education initiatives in his 2007 budget this week. "The [Department of Education] slogan was 'Reading first,' and then they had 'Math now.' Well, I guess it's 'Science finally,'" says Gerald Wheeler, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association...
Congressional Democrats plan to launch a major attack on Republican ethics this week, with party leaders assembling 100 Democrats from the House and Senate, along with Democratic mayors and Governors, at the Library of Congress to unveil reform legislation intended to set the tone for the election year. The plan calls for a prohibition on gifts, including meals, entertainment and travel, from lobbyists and special interests. Democrats also say they would shut down what they call "pay-to-play schemes," such as DeLay's "K Street Project," which encourages companies and lobbying firms to hire Republicans to improve their access...
...repackaging his views. As recently as January 2004, Bush used his first policy announcement of that re-election year to unveil a guest-worker program that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain legal status for at least six years if they have a job and their employer vouches for them. The plan incensed conservatives. Talk-radio hosts and bloggers fanned resentment over "Press 1 for English" phone menus and borders porous to drugs and terrorists. In June, two months after a citizens' group called the Minuteman Project began vigilante patrols of the Mexican border, Bush told lawmakers...
...backlash against the violence is rising among the residents of the banlieues, who marched in silence through their charred neighborhoods on Saturday in a call for calm. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, considered Sarkozy's main rival for President, met with a group of teens and vowed to unveil a plan by the end of the month for aiding poor neighborhoods...