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...apple-pie easy as it looks. Extol "a million acts of kindness" (or a thousand points of light), and you can end up sounding like a mush head, too grateful for white-haired docents and aging hippies adopting highways. Volunteerism hasn't been cool since Camelot, and even then the Peace Corps was ridiculed by conservatives as Kennedy's Kiddie Corps...
...from charities and the government combined than anyone has so far received after the Oklahoma City bombing or the 1998 bombing of the Nairobi embassy. For that matter, if these victims had been killed in a drive-by shooting, they probably would not have received more than a few thousand dollars from state victim-compensation funds...
Gomes also supposedly sponsored a giant birthday party for Pomey last February at T.G.I.Friday’s, complete with an open bar tab of several thousand dollars...
...backs turned, conspicuous and cold. Here and there the regular courtroom Joes muttered amongst themselves about what the big case was today, more than one cocking a brow at the well-coiffed collegiate crowd. A broad Boston accent noted “the Hahvahd kids charged with stealing ninety thousand bucks...
...from charities and the government combined than anyone has so far received after the Oklahoma City bombing or the 1998 bombing of the Nairobi embassy. For that matter, if these victims had been killed in a drive-by shooting, they probably would not have received more than a few thousand dollars from state victim-compensation funds...