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...lives. How remarkable then that four different books, each by a woman cartoonist writing about growing up, have appeared or will appear this fall. Covering each book on a successive week in October, TIME.comix first examined Leela Corman's "Subway Series," about the tensed-up life of a modern, urban high-school girl. This week we go out to the 'burbs of the 1960s for Debbie Drechsler's rich, pastoral "The Summer of Love" (Drawn and Quarterly; 160pp...
...away as Washington. It had all the markings of a well-planned suicide operation: Anas Kandari, 21, and Jassem Hajiri, 26, had traveled from their homes in Kuwait City to the uninhabited island of Failaka, 12 miles offshore. There they had stalked U.S. Marines participating in an urban warfare exercise code-named "Eager Mace," before jumping out of a white pickup truck and spraying the Americans with Kalashnikov rifle fire. As the Marines took cover, the two men scrambled back into their vehicle and proceeded up the road where they attacked a second cluster of Marines before they were blown...
...Marine live-fire urban-warfare training exercise in the Persian Gulf turned tragically real Tuesday when two local men firing AK-47 rifles jumped out of a pickup truck. The Marines killed their attackers, but not before losing one of their own and having a second man wounded - the first casualties, some will say, of the coming war for Iraq. Of course there is no war, right now, and the Pentagon insists that the training exercise in Kuwait had been planned months ago and had nothing to do with the current standoff. Then again, that planned exercise had been...
...rise from developing backwater of Asia to one of the world's major economies. But even miracles come with a price. From 1970 to 1990 the city's population more than doubled to a panic-inducing 10 million. For the South Korean capital this meant a congested and polluted urban landscape, where nature could only be glimpsed in the far-off peaks of Bukhan Mountain?at least on a clear day?and where the city's historical heritage was bulldozed under the rapid construction of modern high-rises...
Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute in Washington and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, fills the Harvard Corporation seat left vacant six months ago when Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65 resigned as his membership on Enron’s board of directors came under scrutiny...