Mad #417 May 2002

• Cover Artist: Jack Syracuse

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• Contents Page (1)
• "Why is it that when someone's fighting to get in
  the last word, it's never 'sorry'?" -- Alfred E. Neuman
• Letters (plug for Mad T-shirts, The Mad Student Survival Guide and reissue of Inside Mad paperback) (photo of Kelli Williams with #394) (reader valentine submissions after #414 request) (2-4)
• Pull My Cheney - customers who tried
  to steal shopping carts (Tom Cheney)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas (summary)
  **various places around the magazine
• Mad's Ecchbay Item of the Month -
  Paula Poundstone's Necktie
  (written by Scott Maiko / Scott Bricher art) (6)