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...long term tax increase and in the long run it will hurt the state's economy and cause the state to lose jobs," says Chip Faulkner, associate director of Citizens for Limited Taxation...
There's never silence when Tarantino is in the room. This engaging, nonstop performer -- named by his half-Cherokee mother for the hero of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury as well as for the half-breed (Quint) played by Burt Reynolds in Gunsmoke -- was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and moved to Southern California when he was two. Since then, it's been a movie-mad life. His folks took him to all sorts of films, then he went on his own. He seems to have remembered -- and understood -- everything he's seen. "He's probably the best video...
Last Wednesday, Houck ruled again, this time in favor of the haircut. Previously, he had accepted the Citadel's demand that Faulkner be housed by herself in a renovated area of the school's infirmary. Faulkner's enrollment, however, seemed inevitable, and as she prepared gamely for her desired ordeal, Citadel graduates like Buck Limehouse (class of '60), now chairman of the South Carolina department of transportation commission, tried to put their disappointment in a historical context: "It's sort of like the Southern cause," he said. "Even if you know you're going to lose...
Then at the last moment, the South rose again. On Friday an appeals court granted the Citadel a stay pending a hearing of arguments, which will probably take place in December. That will effectively postpone Faulkner's cadet debut for at least a year. For now she intends to continue as a day student. She said, "I'd say I'm being selfish and doing this just for me. But I do, in a way, think it's for women who might follow...
...news over the school's intercom system. Brian Wamsley, a 1992 graduate working at the school's computer center, reported that "it was just like winning the World Series. People were yelling and screaming and slapping high fives. It was chaos." For the moment no one seemed worried about Faulkner's intent to appeal the case as high as necessary. "It's good to know there are still some conservative people in this nation," said Wamsley. "We'll definitely be toasting the courts tonight...