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If satire is what closed Saturday, saga, in modern times, is what sags like Thanksgiving's balloon giants.
In discussing the "Glass Is Life" campaign for Owens-Illinois on Saturday, Saga Shoffner, vice president for global marketing at Owens-Illinois, and Evelyn Neill, executive creative director at Doremus, stood side by side on stage, finished each other's sentences and, when they were finished, toasted the audience with Miller Lite beer in, of course, glass bottles.
Those are among the new details that emerged Wednesday from the 10-day saga of Chen Guangcheng, the blind rights lawyer who escaped house arrest in rural Shandong Province, and then, after managing to reach Beijing and come under American protection, was the subject of a series of highly unusual secret negotiations with the Chinese government.
Originally released in comic-book form back in 2006, Hard Boiled and Face/Off director John Woo's modern day samurai saga has been transplanted on to YouTube by Liquid Comics, who have used stop-motion to bring the static panels of the original to life, lending the animation a slightly strange, woozy feel.
That black history is as much American history as baseball and apple pie; that every day the saga of this people is worthy of remembrance; and that the knowledge of who we are and from whence we came ought to have some measurable impact on how we choose to live our lives today.
As the hearings closed, Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, a Democrat who surrenders the chairmanship of the committee on Saturday, said the hearings were a modern-day "Cinderella saga," with Mr. Ashcroft saying that as attorney general he would enforce laws that he had vociferously disagreed with as a Republican senator from Missouri.
Sunday The saga of Togo's withdrawal from the tournament rumbled on in a blizzard of voltes-face and misinformation.
But regardless of the board's vote on Tuesday, the saga seems destined to continue, in court.
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