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...Hughie and I preferred to live with the tenant farmer's family in their unpainted, weathered house half a mile down the road. My brother, Charles and I stayed up reading the Montgomery Ward's catalog by the coal oil lamp, fantasizing over the cowboy boots that were available for $5.95 (an impossible sum of money), and falling asleep in sleeping bags on the living room floor. (The news the other day that Montgomery Ward's had gone out of business bumped in my mind against Jimmy Carter's voice and memories - all items from a lost world...
...this case, when other justices were scrupulously referred to as "Your Honor," Quince was at one point addressed as "Ma'am.') Harry Lee Anstead, who is white, was raised by a single mother in a housing project. R. Fred Lewis, a native of West Virginia, keeps a dish of coal dust on his desk to remind him of his family's coal-mining origins. Barbara J. Pariente, who is Jewish, was raised in an affluent New Jersey suburb by parents who did not attend college. "Although I had the benefits of my father working very hard," she once said...
...second term, Clinton's EPA moved to tighten clean-air rules, putting particularly tough new restrictions on trucks and coal-burning power plants, but the proposals are still tied up in lawsuits. Clinton has also not achieved as much as he wanted in the fight against global warming. Though Gore led the U.S. delegation that helped forge the Kyoto climate-change treaty in 1997, it was immediately criticized by opponents in the U.S. Senate, where it still needs to be ratified. Perhaps the recent negotiations to fill in the details of the treaty will change the Senate's negative attitude...
Even as it suffers, America is creating diamonds out of the dirty coal of this election crisis. I have no idea if that's how diamonds are made, but surely America is tough enough to suffer through some bad geological analogies. That's how strong we are. And because of that, we are about to be rewarded. While all of unemployed America spent eight hours watching a Ryder truck filled with ballots travel at the speed limit across Florida, one brave woman in Los Angeles saw that truck as a way to bring joy to this chad-torn country...
Aside from music stars, actresses and politicians such as Cameron Diaz, Elizabeth Taylor and Hilary Clinton, the book includes images of coal miners, rappers, AIDS activists and prostitutes...