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...book is a collection of recent cartoons, released in conjunction with a retrospective of his work at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore this past summer. “[The retrospective] included the first cartoon I did back in first grade,” Kallaugher says with a smile...
...enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Coop to watch Kallaugher demonstrate his caricature techniques. He first drew a singing nun he had as a teacher in grade school, followed by former Vice President Al Gore ’69, John Kerry, and George H.W. Bush...
...reading tastes in elementary school weren’t that sophisticated. I mean, I could’ve knocked off some Hemingway in fourth grade, but I chose not to. But nor did I incline toward the trashy Goosebumps or Mystic Mountain High (that’s made up, but you know the type) families. So for a while, I tracked the adventures of Encyclopedia Brown, the finest sleuth this side of the Atlantic. A stretch with that endless series about the Boxcar Children. Then I turned my attention to the Redwall saga, those enchanting tales of mice slaying snakes...
...remember once when I was in sixth grade I stole one of my mom’s Capri minty ultra-lights and took it down to the bathroom in the basement. When I came back up I smelled like a cigarette and my mom gave me a REALLY hard time about it (“you stinker,” I think was what she said... I was only twelve!). But here’s a hilarious joke: it wasn’t until I discovered cloves the summer after my senior year of high school that I really started...
...would send a cautionary message to Iran. But whereas North Korea had actually tested a nuclear weapon, Iran's transgressions have less urgency: according to U.S. estimates, it would take 5 to 10 years between the uranium-enrichment experiments currently under way and a real capacity to produce weapons-grade nuclear fuel. Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the IAEA, which monitors nuclear activities for the U.N., reiterated Monday that unlike North Korea, which had pulled out of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran still operates within the terms of the NPT, meaning its nuclear activities are monitored by IAEA inspectors...