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...whale hunts. Japan conducts "scientific" catches - also permitted under the rules - but some of the meat has turned up in markets. Iceland went so far as to quit the IWC in 1992, protesting the moratorium. It rejoined last October - a move that Italy, Mexico and New Zealand, citing proce- dural flaws, still reject...
According to Sharri L. Mack of Cambridge-based America Dural Interior Design, the key to a larger room is simplicity...
Major record labels are starting to take notice. Musicians like Landreth, Wayne Toups and Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural have been marketed beyond the "roots music" category, and Cajun-Zydeco festivals and clubs have sprung up on both coasts. The Cajun-Zydeco sound has influenced mainstream artists as well. Paul Simon's homage to Zydeco and its late "king,'' Clifton Chenier, That Was Your Mother, was one of the highlights of his multimillion-selling Graceland album. Country chanteuse Mary Chapin Carpenter won a Grammy in 1992 for Down at the Twist and Shout, her foot-stompin' tribute to Cajun music in general...
They were wrong. Since the boycott, blacks have lost the habit of shopping on Dryades Street, partly because a white-owned bank, a Woolworth's and a McCrory's store have moved elsewhere-and the whole area has gone downhill. Though Willis and Dural offer brand-name clothes at reasonable prices, middle-class blacks prefer to shop at more prestigious downtown stores-a habit that in other cities is yielding to a "buy black" movement. Willis and Dural do not have the resources to provide credit, and they have refused to send customers to white loan sharks...
...Shopkeepers. William Willis and Earl Dural, both 39, typify the many Negroes for whom the dream of starting their own business has soured. They had talked of opening a clothing store when they were university students and kept discussing it while Willis worked as a beer salesman and Dural as a mailman. Last year they took an eight-week course in retailing run by New Orleans department stores, pooled $3,000 of savings with a $20,000 loan from the Small Business Administration and set up shop on Dryades Street, the main drag of the New Orleans ghetto. Blacks...