In the court of public opinion, celebrities now know that people are cynical, Bossert says.

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Rex Bossert, an assistant dean at the University of California, Irvine's School of Law, thinks he can.

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The group's growth outside New York was slow at first, but founder and executive director Robin Bossert says the number of chapters has surged from 16 to 42 in the past year, with an average of about a dozen youths per unit.

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