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...experience. I realized that my friends are there for me, I’ll never fly on a certain unnamed airline again, and that people finally have a reason to believe in their stereotypes of a snow-covered Denver.And if you want to get me really, really mad, just slam a door in my face.—Malcom A. Glenn is a junior History concentrator in Leverett House. He enjoys long walks in the Bay Area and seeing the sun set over the Golden Gate Bridge...
...course. You are not the only one.'' ''I'm innocent!'' I yelled. ''I've never committed any crime. You have no right to lock up a law-abiding citizen! I demand rehabilitation and an apology!'' ''Keep quiet!'' The guard was now shouting in anger. ''Have you gone mad?'' Sometimes my endurance outlasted the guards' patience, and they resorted to physical violence to silence me, hitting me or kicking my legs. They called me a ''hysterical old woman,'' but they never knew my real purpose in provoking them. Though my legs to this day bear scars inflicted by their heavy boots...
...Republicans, for their part, are mad at Casey because they have no one else to be mad at. Rumsfeld is gone, Abizaid and Schoonmaker are leaving; Cheney is lodged, limpet-like, in the West Wing, awaiting his turn in the Libby trial. But taking down Casey for the conduct of a war that a bunch of guys in ties ordered the Army to prosecute under now-infamous limitations is certainly as perverse as what the Democrats are up to here. And it fits with the growing neoconservative critique of the war at the moment: it was not the idea that...
...Jules Feiffer Little Nemo in Slumberland Richard Corliss: Harvey Kurtzman TIME: Al Feldstein TIME: Peanuts in the Gallery Masters of American Comics The Spirit Archives ABSOLUTELY MAD...
...lovers, invest your money in the Little Nemo book; in The Spirit Archives; in the spectacular enlarged reproduction of Mad comics that Russ Cochran produced in the 80s, or the MAC OS X compilation of all Mad magazines. Sit at your computer, snuggle up in bed or sprawl on the floor with the book open before you. Be a kid again, discovering the low thrills and high art of old Comics Books. You don't need a museum to tell you that this stuff is great...