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Chris Oliveros is about what you would expect for a publisher of literate comic books. Friends refer to him as "self-effacing," "long-suffering," "the quiet type who stands aside." But the founder and owner of Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly is blessed with a sharp eye, a strong sense of what he likes and a commitment to making beautiful, if unconventional, books. For the past 14 years, Oliveros has attracted top cartoonists from Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere to make Drawn & Quarterly the classiest comic publisher in North America...
...analysis. His discussion of Al Gore's 2000 "the people vs. the powerful" campaign slogan, for example, combines smart analysis and a haymaker: "The problem with the slogan was that it didn't give Al the full benefit of our record of economic and social progress or put into sharp relief Bush's explicit commitment to undo that progress. Also, the populist edge sounded to some swing voters as if Al, too, might change the economic direction of the country...
...their Neopoints accounts by participating in marketing surveys. Universal Pictures recently ran a survey on the site to assess and build awareness of a forthcoming kids' movie, Two Brothers. Another pitch on the Neopets home page: click through to a website called Dealtime.com and compare such consumer electronics as Sharp and Sony camcorders, getting to know brands in the process...
...over Iraq and 9/11 follow on intelligence failures stretching back almost to the beginning of Tenet's reign. In his seven years as director of Central Intelligence--only the legendary Allen Dulles served longer--Tenet revived morale at an agency devastated by post--cold war budget cuts and a sharp drop in recruitment. But he also presided over blunders that included the agency's failure to foresee in 1998 that India would test an atomic device, and the mistaken identification one year later of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade as a bombing target, an error that resulted in the deaths...
...shoe salesman and an alcoholic. The family moved often; money was short. Reagan was 11 when he came home one day and found his father lying dead drunk on the porch. "I wanted to ... pretend he wasn't there," Reagan recalled. "I bent over him, smelling the sharp odor of whiskey ... I got a fistful of his overcoat [and] managed to drag him inside...