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...personnel record from the Louisville, Kentucky, school system, where Wigand now teaches science and Japanese. The investigators may have thought they would turn Wigand's fellow educators against him. They were wrong. "Not all of us agree with what [Wigand] is doing," says Barbara Fendley, who supervises Wigand at DuPont Manual High School and is married to a tobacco farmer. "But we all support his right to do what he thinks is right. We're bigger than Brown & Williamson...
...Minutes last month as he offered up potentially devastating inside information about the machinations of his former employer, tobacco giant Brown & Williamson. Then there is the somewhat antic teacher his high school students know and love. One day recently he was darting about the dingy science classroom at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky, like a gnome on triple espresso, questioning and wisecracking in his rapid-fire Bronx rasp as 30 ninth-grade advanced physical-science students went over results of field research. DuPont principal Beverly Keepers remembers walking in one time on Wigand, who holds a Ph.D...
Merrill spoke to about to 700 Dole supporters in a "Get Out the Vote" rally at Exeter Area High School in Exeter Sunday. Here Dole celebrated the endorsements of Gramm, baseball great Ted Williams, and former Deleware gov. Pierre "Pete" DuPont...
...name was DuPont they never would have done this to me, but there is a flagrant racist aspect to this," he said...
Maybe we will never really know what drove DuPont to dementia or why he finally snapped. But it's clear that even a huge inheritance can't buy sanity. In fact, DuPont's wealth may have contributed to his problems. DuPont's bankroll gave him the freedom and the resources to concentrate on cultivating his odd obsessions...