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Sarah E. Ludwig, who works in publishing in New York, said she wanted new clothes. More specifically, "a new three-quarters-length coat from the Gap (in black) and a pair of caramel-colored, knee-high leather boots...
Coppin State in Maryland devoted much of the first year of its partnership with Rosemont to mundane matters like making sure the school had working telephones and a fresh coat of paint. The college also took on the more daunting task of educating the school's parents. Coppin offered child-rearing classes to Rosemont parents, but the instructor soon realized some of the parents had trouble reading the handouts. After surveying school parents about their educational needs, Coppin began helping some work toward high school diplomas...
Hank Williams? He's on the juke box, singing about long country roads and broken hearts, and there is Charlie Parker, the man who turned jazz inside out as if he'd just pulled it through the sleeve of his coat, listening. Entranced. A bystander asks Bird to explain what he's doing paying such close attention to music that is so beyond--no, beneath--the jazz horizon. Parker has an easy answer. "Listen to the stories," he says, and keeps on listening...
...sight of this bit of "evidence" the next morning, I was aghast. I approached the fireplace gingerly, treating the vicinity like a crime scene. I barely wanted to touch the cotton, for fear of disrupting the original confirmation of this landmark discovery. My parents suggested that Santa caught his coat on the way out, and a bit of the material was left here. I swallowed this explanation and wanted to dust the area for Santa's fingerprints...
Daye disagrees. "There were 6,000 guys at Folsom prison," he says, "and I was the only one from Iowa." He learned to make a knife out of a sardine can and sew a steel tray into his coat as body armor. "They put my life in far more peril than I was ever in on the street." Daye, who makes $7 an hour as a cook in Raleigh, N.C., still hopes that his lawsuit, now under appeal, will help set things right...