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...series. As anyone who watched that splendid movie knows, Pekar led a fairly unremarkable life as a Cleveland file clerk until he decided to turn that very mundaneness into comic art. Hiring others to illustrate his non-fiction vignettes of such quotidian occurrences as starting a car in the winter or talking with co-workers, Pekar's stories were driven by his intensely cranky, neurotic, highly-intelligent and, above all, hilarious personality. But the one thing Pekar never explored, until now, was how he got that way. The Quitter takes Harvey back to his childhood with the candor and unsentimentally...
...wake of rising natural gas and oil prices magnified by Hurricane Katrina, Harvard has raised its budget for heating for the upcoming winter to $3.4 million, compared with $3.1 million budgeted last year...
According to Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Assistant Dean for Physical Resources Michael Lichten, the College went over budget last year and actually spent $3.3 million on heating, so the actual cost this winter might be even higher...
Even before the hurricane, the Energy Information Administration had predicted a 16 percent increase in heating oil costs this winter, coming after a 34 percent increase last winter, the senators wrote in the letter, dated Sept...
...exaggerating worker shortages to prevent tougher enforcement of immigration laws. But Manuel Cunha, Jr., president of the Nisei Farmers League in Fresno, Calif., whose organization represents 1,000 small farmers, says this year's shortage is real, and likely to affect much more than the Central San Joaquin Valley. Winter lettuce, broccoli, and other crops could be next, then the large-scale agricultural producers in Texas and Florida, not to mention hotels, slaughterhouses and restaurants. "Businesses across the country depend on unauthorized foreign labor," Cunha says. "Congress must develop good immigration policies, now rather than later...