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...Washington's soft-spoken, gently smiling and ingratiating performance, he is altogether more charming than most of his predecessors; it comes as a real shock when he must off a competitor or a betrayer. And we enjoy seeing him enjoy his success - the gigantic mansion in which he installs his formerly dirt-poor family, his trophy wife, the celebrity that comes to him. There has never been much point in deploring a gangster's rise; it's his demise that we fear - the notion that the American go-getter must inevitably be gotten. "Mother of Mercy, is this...
...assimilation gave way to the fight for minorities and civil rights," explains Pasamonik. Harvey Kurtzman used the medium to tackle racial segregation, the Cold War and McCarthyism in his satirical MAD magazine. In 1955, when popular awareness of the Holocaust was scant, Bernard Krigstein and Al Feldstein caused a shock by revisiting the concentration camps with the seminal graphic story Master Race. During the '60s and '70s the genre opened up to the banal and biographical, with Pekar and Crumb's darkly humorous American Splendor and Eisner's landmark graphic novel, A Contract with...
...school where nut products are banned; some schools are going nut-free altogether. In some districts, like Ladue in St. Louis, Mo. - which includes about half a dozen peanut-free schools - teachers must learn how to administer an adrenaline shot known as an EpiPen. The injection counteracts anaphylactic shock, a potentially deadly allergic reaction that results in closed airways and can be triggered by mere contact with a nut-based product...
...Bears, who turned in an impressive victory over Penn last time out, shock Yale by beating it through the air? Brown passer Michael Dougherty is leading Division I-AA is yards per game, but he’s facing one of the better defensive outfits in the league...
...making money off the Harvard football team,” Ferrara said. “We’re taking a medical device approach.” Unlike traditional foam-lined helmets, Xenith’s helmet is lined with 18 “Aware-Flow” shock absorbers, which release air upon impact and compress more completely than foam, minimizing impact force. Laboratory tests also reveal that the disks are sturdy and show few signs of wear after impact, according to the company’s Web site. As a football player, Ferrara had an impressive record. Despite...