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...Vince Gill. Reba McEntire. Alan Jackson. Names sound familiar...
Guterson's particular gift is for description: he takes you into one fully researched scene after another -- gill-netters at work, an autopsy, digging for geoduck clams. With equal precision, Guterson traces the shadow lives of Japanese in the Northwest at a time when Americans of Japanese descent were referred to by Census takers as "Jap Number 1 ... laughing Jap, dwarf...
...search committee was also impressed with Fisher's familiarity with the lives of both undergraduates and graduates at Harvard, Gill said...
Student members of the committee said they were particularly impressed with Fisher's ideas for involving more faculty members in house activities, said Margot N. Gill, dean for student affairs of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and chair of the search committee...
...troubled Randolph County High School was arson. The FBI and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms say "an accelerant" caused the blaze. Meanwhile, the man at the center of the racial fire storm, ex-principal Hulond Humphries, got slapped with a lawsuit from a local TV cameraman. Bill Gill's tape shows Humphries and another man slamming Gill to the ground. The reporter, who is black, says the incident was racially motivated and points to racist statements made during the alleged assault...