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...series, he has always had a way with women characters in particular, somehow indulging in every imaginable fetishist "type" (included here: the voluptuous dwarf, the anorexic yet unaturally buxom stripper, and the usual amazons) while managing to give them some of the most credible and sympathetic voices in any medium. The absurd violence likewise plays with the old scenarios. Issue three begins with a daring horseback rescue that quickly ends with an explosion, raining horse and man over the desert...
...Americans. Germany's free public universities are a joke, full of perpetual students who have little contact with professors. As my colleague Charles Wallace, TIME's Berlin bureau chief, has reported, serious German students are flocking to private, fee-charging institutions, many of which use English as their medium of instruction...
...taxis aren't just for top brass. Much of the new business comes from small-to-medium-sized companies that need to move middle managers around several European cities within a few days. In a survey of European charter operators by the trade publication Air Charter Guide, 35% said traffic had increased since the attacks, while 40% reported no downturns since September. "That's a strong result" in recessionary times, says spokesperson Meara McLaughlin, especially considering that business for Europe's commercial carriers has fallen by 15% within Europe and transatlantic business by 33%. In the U.S., which has long...
...copper plates bound by four rings. Into each plate is carved a different alphabet; on the two visible pages, the Etruscan and Gothic alphabets are on display. Perhaps Davidson hopes to make a pregnant and theoretical statement about the transience and protean nature of alphabets, languages and the written medium in general. Either way, the book of copper plates is visually impressive...
Menino created the Backstreets program in November 2001 to help “backstreets operations”—small and medium-sized industrial and commercial businesses—stay vital and remain in their neighborhoods...