Word: sectionalism
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Browse through any bookstore's graphic novel section and it will look like a tsunami has passed through, blasting the shelves with reams of indistinguishable Japanese manga. Like a red tide, most of it stinks. But some interesting manga flotsam has also washed ashore, strangely, by way of France, Spain and England. Since 2003 a Spanish publisher, Ponent Mon, in collaboration with a U.K. outfit named Fanfare, has published five books in the U.S. as part of a line they call nouvelle manga. They mean to start a new genre and the latest two, "Doing Time" by Kazuichi Hanawa...
...teaching fellows (TFs) can make section about as educationally edifying as a trip to the dentist’s office. Aside from a set of remarkable grad students who know the material and possess the skills to teach it, in section—often the pedagogical equivalent of pulling teeth—leaders range from the clueless to the unhinged. Yet when it comes to undergraduate education, the College puts TFs both good and bad on pedagogy’s front lines...
ITHACA, N.Y.—The apparent ringleader of my section settled in about six seats to my left and one row down. At 6:45, he was already numerous drinks into his evening and made sure to keep a flask constantly at the ready in his right hand...
...game moved deep into the third period, the ringleader in my section appeared to be losing steam. With his voice strength fading and his flask apparently empty, he became slightly more subdued—content in the comfort of Cornell’s 2-0 lead...
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