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...almost everyone else. Nineteen years after the fall of Saigon, it is not easy to persuade readers anywhere in the world to revisit the Vietnam War. That was the problem British literary agent Gill Coleridge faced when she tried to sell the rights to Ninh's Sorrow of War to American publishers in & 1992. "They all turned it down," says Coleridge. "I remember one said, 'We don't want to be told how badly we behaved in Vietnam...
...first six decades of Willie Gill's life, the winding dirt road next to his house in Chilton County, Alabama, was a nuisance. If trucks weren't churning its surface into clouds of red dust, rains were turning it into a swamp. Gill, who is black, never really expected the all-white county commission to do much about it. "But Mr. Agee, he come and put in a paved road just about last year," Gill reports. "I'm glad to have...
...Gill is no fire-breathing radical. Nor is Bobby Agee, a 43-year-old funeral director who six years ago became the county's first black commissioner since Reconstruction. Yet Gill's road would not have been paved had he and other Chilton County blacks not voted for Agee seven times apiece -- legally. It was an act that, radical or not, put them in the vanguard of a ballot-casting experiment called cumulative voting, one of a brace of methods hailed by some as the future of suffrage but labeled antidemocratic by no less an authority than Bill Clinton...
Dean for student Affairs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Margot N. Gill and Associate Dean for Affirmative Action Barbara J. Grosz guided a discussion of the figures, while University Attorney Robert B. Donin discussed recent court decisions which have deemed some institutions partially liable for the transgressions of their employees...
...Gill would report to University of Virginia President John P. Casteen...