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...ever going to happen with Penny Arcade." Now their strip, which stars two young men who are obsessed with video games, has 4 million readers a month. Penny Arcade has a staff of eight. Holkins and Krahulik run an annual convention, Penny Arcade Expo, which is expected to draw 20,000 people this summer, and a charity called Child's Play that donates video games to children's hospitals. Last year they raised more than $1 million...
...fear that given America's overwhelmingly Christian cast, even neutral Bible instruction would amount to preferencing. "If you teach the Bible outside of close conjunction with other religions," she says, "then it becomes a kind of promotion of the majority faith. It becomes too hard for most folks to draw the line between teaching and preaching." Yet the American Jewish Congress's Stern, who has participated in Supreme Court establishment-clause-violation cases, sees Bible class as a plus for anyone following in his footsteps. "Take creationism," he offers. "Unless you are literate in the first two chapters of Genesis...
...every year and this group seems to want to emphasize a more open application process.” That said, the emphasis on traditional ties shows through in the Harvard lodge’s connection to another exclusive Harvard social organization, the Hasty Pudding Club. “We draw some members from the Pudding,” says Ryan J. Johnson ’00, current grand master of the Harvard lodge. “It’s not a requirement to get in, but there’s a longstanding tradition with the two institutions...
...after 20 years as a gladiator in the bloody coliseum of the New York media. His every foible, rage and dysfunction have already been exposed by the tabloids in end-of-the-world fonts. But if he's not naive, what is he? The only conclusion we can draw is that he's confident he can survive...
...International, over 150 people have been killed by Tasers since June 2001. The CPD plans to implement a review process to oversee use of the weapons, and each Taser will be mounted with a video camera to record its use. Nonetheless, it is unclear exactly where the police will draw the line in terms of appropriate usage. In one particularly disturbing and widely circulated video, a UCLA student screams as he is Tasered repeatedly by campus police officers. His crime: he forgot to bring his ID to the library and was reluctant to leave. While this type of abuse...