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Lampoon: has been around for 111 years and is oldest humor magazine in country...
Besides cleaning up the streets, Cohen has supported local park restoration efforts. He directed the Committee for Restoration of Winthrop Park, which is the oldest public park in America. Cohen also holds leadership positions on the boards of Leslie College and the Cardinal Cushing High School. "He is a very influential man and never hesitates to put in a good word for our organization," says Smith...
...murder of a black teenager by six U.K.A. members, the jury awarded damages of $7 million to the mother of Michael Donald, who was beaten, strangled and hung from a tree. Anti-Klan experts say the huge fine could dismantle the complex financial network of the U.K.A., the oldest, largest (2,500 members) and most secretive of the various Klan groups. More important, in the words of Klanwatch Director Bill Stanton, the verdict sets a "precedent to seek damages from the corporate Klan behind the perpetrators" of racial incidents...
...World Wildlife Fund, flies in to Merz's sanctuary that morning to ask her to accept another baby rhino, which was just orphaned by poachers in the Masai Mara. Lamprey is a mandarin who urbanely calls down apocalypse in a voice that sounds the way the finest, oldest brandy tastes. The visitor privately bestows a title upon him: the Duke of Extinction...
...year-old Corporation, formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, is the University's top governing body and the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere. Its members, who hold closed-door meetings twice monthly, recently came under pressure from Harvard students, who urged the body to open part of their proceedings to the public...