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...influence of "Mad" (which first appeared in 1953) and its distanced take on very nature of things like "Little Lulu." Perhaps the funniest piece in Nick Mag's special comics issue is Michael Kupperman's "Worst Comic Book Heroes That Never Existed," a gallery that includes Citober, the invisible, silent robot whose adventures were "mostly people saying 'Hey, where's Citober.'" The change of kid's humor comics from the concrete (e.g. Tubby falls down) to conceptual represents the change in our culture from one of primary experience to one of mediated experience. In this case, it is notable that...
...Economist came to Summers’ defense, editorializing in eerily familiar terms that if Summers “was merely trying to provoke debate,” “it is to be hoped that he succeeds—and that the Bank does not, instead, go silent on the subject...
When one student asked for an explanation of this gender disparity, the panel members were initially silent, with one member asking, “Can you repeat the question?”, prompting laughter from the audience...
...transpired over the next few seconds is disputed by Pantano's lawyers and the Marines. Pantano's defense counsel says that as the two Iraqis pulled off the seat covers, they started talking quietly to each other. Pantano told them, in his rudimentary Arabic, to shut up. They went silent, then started speaking again, this time in muffled voices. Then the two men turned toward Pantano as if to jump him. He told them to halt, and when they did not, he opened up with his M-16. He kept firing until he was sure they were dead. Then, perhaps...
...chose to report it to the police a full three months after the incident. The other elected to remain silent...