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People like Boykin seem comparable to crazy religious megalomaniacs from Malaysia but are difficult to place in a Western democracy. Boykin's ignorant slurs on Islam have no place in our democracy or in the Bush Administration. JUSTEEN WARD Van Nuys, Calif...
...This is not news to Katsuei Hirasawa, an outspoken LDP Diet member from western Tokyo's 17th ward. He says many LDP members are as uncomfortable as he is about being associated with a party that has such explicit religious ties, but few speak out. "They keep their silence because they need the New Komeito," he says. The New Komeito, for its part, is in a position to speak loudly?and it will certainly be heard...
...identified as a "graphic novel" was the 1976 publication of "Beyond Time and Again," by George Metzger, where the term "graphic novel" appears on the title page and on the dust jacket flaps. There had been other efforts at "graphic storytelling" before. Eisner mentions the work of Lynd Ward [creator of the wordless novel "Gods' Man" in 1929] in his introduction, for instance. Milt Gross did an entire narrative in pictures with no words: "He Done Her Wrong" in 1930. Gil Kane and Archie Goodwin produced "His Name Is? Savage," [a book-length comic,] in 1968. "A Contract with...
...could name. It’s a working-class city, roughly equal parts white, black and Latino, with brash politics and a kinetic union movement (much to Yale’s discomfiture). The city is small enough that Yale students play an active role—symbolized by Ward 1 of the Board of Aldermen, the equivalent of the city council, which is comprised almost entirely of undergraduate dorms. Earlier this month, incumbent Alderman Ben Healey, a Yale senior, defeated fellow senior Dan Kruger in one of New Haven’s hardest-fought races. Town-gown relations are contentious...
Teaming with juniors Alli Bates and Molly Ward and captain Erica DeBenedetto in the Crimson ‘A’ relay for the 200-yard medley event, Chang’s butterfly leg propelled her team to a time of 1:47.17—just one-tenth of a second off Teagle Hall’s record pace set back...