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...hundred thousand students would volunteer for organizations like City Year, a national volunteering program and think tank, or Citizen Schools, which organizes after-school activities for middle schoolers, and run summer programs for younger students in exchange for a $500 college scholarship. Senators Christopher Dodd (Democrat, Conn.) and Thad Cochran (Republican, Miss.) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (Democrat, Conn.) have sponsored a bill that would support a service "rite of passage" for students before they begin high school...
Black's lawyers seem partial to an approach that worked flawlessly for Johnnie Cochran in the O.J. Simpson trial. They've suggested that they will create doubt by roughing up the prosecution's star witness, Black's former partner David Radler, on the stand, thereby persuading jurors to acquit because the proverbial glove doesn...
...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...
...analysis emphasized how "lovable" his character Kramer was. But Seinfeld wasn't universally loved. The most popular show among white viewers, it was a distant runner-up among blacks, and minorities criticized it for having all white stars and portraying people of color as stereotypes or buffoons (the Johnnie Cochran--like lawyer; Babu, the Pakistani restaurateur). Did the critics have a point? It's going to be hard to look the same way, say, at the episode in which Kramer inadvertently dresses up like a pimp...
...Webb is standing at parade rest, feet apart at shoulder width, chin out, quiet blue eyes scanning his target of opportunity-the assembled Democrats of Montgomery County, Virginia-and waiting for local party chieftain Steve Cochran to ask him something. "Well, looking through this," Cochran says, riffling through a series of questions written on three-by-five cards, "there's one dominant theme. People want to know why you became a Democrat after all those years as a Republican, and why you endorsed George Allen for the U.S. Senate over Chuck Robb in 2000, and why you want...