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...Benoni is co-ed, but females aren't subject to lashings; chivalry at its best. They get detention for violating rules; males are whipped even for "really, really dumb things," Cornish said. In addition to crimes such as "back-chatting" teachers, Benoni's finest should be prepared for a smackdown if their hair is too long or too short...
Another: she is already seated in the Elektra Records conference room when the reporter arrives. Chapman doesn't do many interviews, but she is here to discuss Telling Stories, released last week, a lyrical, restrained pop-folk CD that contains some of her finest songwriting. She is dressed in blue jeans, black boots and a white T shirt that reads LOVE. She answers questions readily, but, at first, there's a dutiful quality to her replies; she measures her speech like stanzas. On CDs her singing voice is a heavy alto, laden with sadness; in person her speaking voice...
...said the Sphinx represents their finest effort to date--something he said is due in part to their use of the recycling bins, which allowed them to pack the snow more tightly...
...show's finest pieces is by Annette Lemieux, this year a visiting lecturer in Harvard's Visual and Environmental Studies department. "Decline," 1989, is a monumental, sepia-toned print of a pastoral scene. Recalling vintage travel posters, a snow-capped mountain ascends in the background, while the image of a waterfall cascades below. The oversize canvas has been set on the floor, leaning casually against the wall, so that at its lower edge the waterfall is cut off mid-drop. Lemieux wittily extends into the museum with a rectangle of blue plush carpet that begins on the ground where...
...even recovered from the stigma of its handling of the 1965 Watts riots when it created international headlines for the beating of Rodney King, which inspired a fresh set of riots in the early '90s. Now a new investigation into rampant corruption, law-bending and lawbreaking among L.A.'s finest stands to become the department's biggest scandal yet, raising questions of whether it will ever be able to gain the trust of the citizenry it's charged to serve...