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...started out drawing Riel with a big head and a smaller body then by the end of the book I was drawing him with a big body and a small head with massive hands. That's very much the way Gray drew his heroic figures. That's what the basic size of Daddy Warbucks was. That was why I had to re-draw the early scenes [for the collection] to make the Riel at the end of the book match the one at the beginning...
...freedom is safe, because every clause in the Basic Law is [now] subject to interpretation by the Standing Committee without notice." MARTIN LEE, Hong Kong Democratic Party legislator, on Beijing's new interpretation of the Basic Law, the territory's mini-constitution-an adjustment that Lee says undermines the "one country, two systems" principle meant to afford Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy from the mainland...
...feminist generation, these concerns about use of “girl” seem petty and dated. Girls born in the ’80s grew up enjoying the benefits of Title IX; this year, more women than men were admitted to Harvard. In many ways, we take our basic equality with young men for granted. But “girl” is not exactly analogous to “guy”; we do not call the men of our acquaintance “boys.” The infantalizing connotations of “girl?...
...think everyone can agree that general education should provide some foundation in the basic principles of the major discipline or the major groups of disciplines. No one should get a bachelor’s degree without being familiar with the basic disciplines. But students should have a great degree of choice...
...concept was the moral sanctity of American power. The post-cold war world was unipolar; multilateral institutions like the United Nations were feckless constraints on American action. Diplomatic protocols like the Kyoto accord and the Middle East peace process were outdated as well (the protection of Israel was another basic neoconservative assumption). The response to Islamic radicalism would be strategic, as Rice said, not tactical: the Middle East would be rebuilt according to American principles, and Iraq was the key. If Saddam Hussein could be replaced by a democracy (or perhaps just a pro-American government headed by every neocon...