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Actually it was a big deal. I think the whole thing of Brits working for American comics was a big deal. Because America was like this fabled foreign land. When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty, it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko's Spider-Man fights used to happen in and around. So it's always been this kind of exotic babylon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen's Dave Gibbons | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...cozy critical clique again. From here 2666 tacks abruptly sideways into the mind of a philosophy professor who teaches in Santa Teresa, and who may be slowly going insane, and then again into another genre entirely, a hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to Santa Teresa from New York City to cover a boxing match. It only becomes clear in Part 4 - "The Part about the Crimes" - that Bolaño is performing these lateral leaps the better to observe from all sides what the reader only gradually recognizes as the book's true subject: the horrific serial rape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolaño's 2666: The Best Book of 2008 | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...body’s history. Kennedy discussed the committee’s criteria in selecting these five Senate members—who turned out to be Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Robert Taft, and Robert La Follette, Sr.—in an article for the New York Times Magazine. The chosen senators, Kennedy wrote, displayed “statesmanship transcending party and State lines” and “leadership in national thought and constitutional interpretation as well as legislation...

Author: By Loren Amor | Title: A Contender by Any Name | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...really had them on the ropes. Friday night, it was a matter of a couple of blocks, and with Princeton, it was the slide attack that resulted in us falling short.” The Crimson finishes out the season on a road trip to New York next weekend, playing Columbia on Friday and Cornell the next day.“We had joked around about steamrolling [the opposing team] each time,” Weiss said. “That’s what we plan on doing on the road to New York.”PRINCETON...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Day Doesn’t Bring Reversal of Recent Fortune | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...did” is but one example; take The New York Times, which, in its euphoria, claimed that Obama’s election broke “the last racial barrier in American politics.” To be sure, it was momentous, but we are not past the problem of race in Washington. When it comes to race, gender, and other areas, government continues to be diversity-deficient. As long as the country remains hesitant to elect Latinos, Arab-Americans, or others, we will never be able to declare that we have broken that last racial barrier?...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: No, We Haven’t | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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