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Runners at NC State hit the pavement and younger students sang songs -- all in an effort to thank military members ahead of Veterans Day.

He considered his work a form of doodling sociology and was especially interested in people who were irony deficient.

The New Yorker cartoonist created a fantasy world of toothy, long-nosed, hairy creatures of indeterminate species that articulated the neuroses and banalities of middle-class America for six decades.

Edward Koren, the New Yorker cartoonist who created a fantasy world of toothy, long-nosed, hairy creatures of indeterminate species that articulated t

For six decades in The New Yorker and elsewhere, his hairy, toothy, long-nosed characters offered witty commentary on the foibles of the American middle class.