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...typical bit of dialogue. Sfar's endlessly inventive and funny variations on the supernatural theme - e.g. the werewolf changing back to human only if a girl kisses him, "but with a wolf's face it's not gonna be a cakewalk" - add fresh comedic blood to the otherwise wane romantic Vampire genre. Funny, truthful and clever, Vampire Loves is one of the best comix of the year...
...time when the curricular review’s boldest initiative has been to call for the creation of year-long, integrative survey courses to incentivize commonalities between what students learn, it should be a moment for History 10a to wax, not wane...
...foreign competition, but because of long-term demographic changes. Over the past 30 years, millions of Korean farmers have traded their hoes and their backbreaking lifestyle for comfy, higher-paid jobs in the cities. The importance of rice in the Japanese or Korean diet is also on the wane as youngsters eat more Western-style foods. The amount of rice consumed by the average Korean has fallen 24% over the past 10 years alone, according to Korean government figures. "For the younger population, cooking rice is just too much of a hassle," says Kamiki, the Japanese food culture analyst. What...
...Bush era begins to wane, some remaining aides lack the chops to set him right when he is off course. Several of his closest advisers--including Condoleezza Rice, Alberto Gonzales and Karen Hughes--have left the West Wing for Cabinet posts or jobs in other agencies. His chief of staff, Andrew Card, has never been mistaken for James Baker, the man who made a minor career out of setting Bush's father right. And Bush has filled a number of lesser spots around the government with political hacks and patronage candidates--most embarrassingly Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency...
...under the government's "go out" policy. One source close to CNOOC's top management believes the government "tolerated" the bid. But once it became clear that CNOOC's ambitions had become a flash point in an already tense relationship with the U.S., whatever enthusiasm there was began to wane. In mid-July, Beijing's Xinhua news agency opined that, in the future, perhaps it would be best if Chinese companies did "friendly" mergers with foreign companies. Later the Chinese media docilely parroted the government line, which was that whatever happened to the deal, U.S.-China trade relations would continue...