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...graphic novelist with a few other books behind him (all in French, including another travelogue, Shenzhen, about his time in China) Delisle's drawings have a lively cartoonish quality and an elegant, easy-to-read design. The black and white artwork has been done mostly in pencil, with soft shading, capturing a grayed out world devoid of color. His simplified characters inhabit more detailed environments, in the classic European bandes dessinee style, but with Delisle's own spin. Visual jokes also lighten up the grim totalitarian atmosphere. One panel imitates a Sunday comics puzzle, depicting a police lineup of ordinary...
Closer to home, textbooks’ soft-cover cousins aren’t getting any cheaper either. Coursepacks that Harvard Printing and Publication Services (HPPS) used to handle are now being farmed out to XanEdu, a for-profit printer, and sold at the Harvard Coop. The extra distribution costs plus the Coop’s markup can only mean higher prices for students (then again, HPPS’s abrupt departure from the coursepack printing business means their low prices must have been to some extent financially unsustainable...
...that falls somewhere between mass market and prestige. That's why Fiske, a boyish-looking 43-year-old in a dark suit, is at the Hudson Hotel: he has just launched a new line of skin-care products developed by dermatologist to the stars Patricia Wexler. "This," says the soft-spoken Fiske, "represents another step in the transformation of Bath & Body Works from raspberry shower gel to a modern apothecary of beauty and well-being...
...this debate erupts so violently every time the winds howl and hurl water out of their way; God whispers as well as shouts, and mystery comes in all sizes. On any given day in between, an innocent child somewhere is struck by lightning or disease or drowns in the soft frozen river or starves in the drought-wracked desert. Do we only wonder why God lets people die en masse but are content not to ask so long as they die quietly, one at a time? Or wonder how we are called to help only when the need...
...poisonous" for someone to suggest that the president would decide who ought to be helped on the basis of color. "You know the phrase that actually attracted me to him more than anything else didn't have anything to do with foreign policy-it was actually ?the soft bigotry of low expectations,'" she said, referring to his campaign phrase for underestimating minority pupils. "I had a high school teacher who told me that maybe I was junior college material. So I know about the soft bigotry of low expectations, and it's not in this president...