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Graphic novels have a long way to go before reaching the bestseller lists. Yet Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” series about the Holocaust, for instance, won a Pulitzer Prize. It is unlikely that the lack of widespread acceptance of graphic novels is due to inferior writing—indeed, it seems unlikely that readers of ludicrously popular “The Da Vinci Code” were drawn in by its prose or character development...
...foreign, classic, and independent films ever since (see sidebar). Financial troubles arrived in earnest in the nineties, and, despite a shift to nonprofit status and some major renovations in 2001, those troubles have only deepened as attendance figures have dropped, says Brattle Creative Director Ned Hinkle. These widespread troubles have prompted the Brattle Film Foundation to launch the most extensive fund-raising effort in its history: $400,000 by the end of 2005, $100,000 in 2006. The “PRESERVE THE BRATTLE LEGACY CAMPAIGN,” as they are calling it, is an acknowledgment that, to continue...
...piece. “The Craft,” the Sacramento duo’s third album, somewhat surprisingly released on the self-styled “Indie Punk and Hardcore” label Epitaph’s Anti imprint, has Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel poised for widespread success. Since 1999’s “A2G” EP launched the group into the ranks of underground stardom with the anti-mainstream anthem “Deception,” Blackalicious has gone on a solidly successful run. They dropped the afro-centric opus...
...Unlike the anthrax scare, pandemic fears are widespread and taken far more seriously by international agencies. So the demand for a treatment--until, at least, a vaccine becomes available, and probably well after--isn't likely to subside. It will continue to draw manufacturers considerably less concerned than is Roche about its intellectual property rights. Cipla, an Indian generics manufacturer that already sells cheap HIV drugs to African countries, now plans to begin selling a generic version of Tamiflu at cut-rate prices--and says it will do so probably within three months, regardless of whether the Swiss drug firm...
Erin Brockovich-Ellis, the iconic environmental activist who drew widespread attention to water contamination in a community in California, was honored with the Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) most prestigious award yesterday, angering a lawyers’ group and others at the University who discredit the science behind Brockovich-Ellis’ activism.Brockovich-Ellis was a clerk at a law firm in Hinkley, Calif. when her investigations revealed that hundreds of people in a single neighborhood had been exposed to water contaminated with chromium-6, dumped there by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Brockovich convinced...