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...abundance of favors to inspectors when he worked for Logan County mine operator and consultant Phil Nelson. Vannatter says he was told to make sure that federal and state inspectors got whatever they desired: cash, groceries, rifles, tires, even a donation to a local church. The role was a curious one for Vannatter, whose father had been killed in a mining accident three months before Vannatter was born. "My conscience bothered me all along," he says, "but I got two little boys I had to feed...
...were curious about what "soft sculpture" really entails, so we called Christine K. Lee '93, one of the project's organizers. The soft sculptors will paint on hundreds of T-shirts and arrange them in either "a pile on the steps of Lamont," or "string them around a tree." Everyone who passes by the spectacle may take one of the shirts, thereby changing the size of the pile and contributing to what Lee calls an "evolving work of art." This project, remember, got four hundred dollars...
Without advertising, Johnson relies primarily on curious local passers-by for business, but cannot afford to make Mud Man the sole source of support for his family...
That was a curious choice of words from a man who has spent his public life distancing himself from racial stereotypes. But the image of Thomas symbolically dangling from a tree tapped into the pent-up rage all blacks feel at the violence and bigotry they have suffered for centuries: in this case, an appeal to racial resentments was the first resort of a black man accused of sexist crimes. To accept Hill's story, Thomas implied, was to join in a racist plot...
...Well, I think there is a curious paradox in South Africa. We've had television for only about 12 years now, which is really very short compared with the rest of the world. But, of course, it is the most powerful medium in the world, and you'll find in South Africa now television aerials sticking up from shacks in the poorest black townships. In that context, books would come low down on the list of priorities. On the other hand, because there are many people who really are not book literate, there is an immense hunger. There...