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...Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Pantheon: 2000) The most perfect novel yet seen in this format, Ware innovates in form and in content to create a uniquely American story, both tragic and gut-splittingly funny. Neither smart nor a kid, Jimmy reunites with his long-lost dad, finds him a great disappointment, and discovers an African-American sister he never knew about...
...Haven’s crappiness reinforces the on-campus scene,” says Yale senior Ian Ware. “It’s not like schools like Columbia where students disperse all over the city...
...lavished with attention by the New Haven business community. Almost all of the nightlife, shopping and dining in downtown New Haven aims toward a college-aged clientele. “New Haven is pretty good with most of the important aspects of college life,” says Ware. “It has good restaurants, good bars and good clubs...
...graphic novel seems both sunny and dim. As a term for a kind of book, "graphic novel" has become increasingly dissatisfying. "Maybe for a short window it was enough to say 'graphic novel' but soon it won't be," says Art Spiegelman, "because if you talk about [Chris Ware's] 'Jimmy Corrigan' as a graphic novel you'll have to explain that it's not manga or Marvel. Then you are left saying, 'well it's got a seriousness of purpose' that the phrase 'graphic novel' alone won't offer." On the positive side, the public awareness of these books...
...Analyzing Iraq Michael Ware's report on the recruitment by the U.S. last spring of Iraqi collaborators, who were crucial to the success of the invasion [Oct. 20], suggested that some U.S. authorities knew the extent of the threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Who in the U.S. intelligence services or government?by accident or design?exaggerated that threat and thus misled the governments and peoples of Australia, Britain and Spain? An independent public inquiry is essential to settle that question. It must be followed by U.S. actions showing that lessons have been learned. Otherwise it is less...