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...courthouse at Jasper had never seen anything like it before. There, just inside the massive French doors on the 110-year-old yellow stucco building, were an X-ray machine and a metal detector to screen everyone entering the building. But, of course, the little logging town hasn't been quite the same since June 7, 1998, when a black man was chained to the back of a pickup and dragged three miles to his death, pieces of him, including his head, falling by the wayside. Now the first of three white men accused of the crime...
...lesson to be gleaned from Jasper, Texas, is not that a racist murderer, John William King, was convicted and sentenced to die on Thursday for the horrific dragging death of a black man behind a pickup truck. The lesson, says TIME correspondent Sam Gwynne, is that the community did not blow apart over the crime; it let the criminal justice system run its course...
...Jasper is located in a part of eastern Texas with a horrible history of racial strife,? Gwynne says, but the community has worked long and hard ?to keep the lines of communication open? between the races. White and black churches have stayed in touch with each other and the schools have provided an additional avenue for dialogue. The contacts have helped build ?a relatively enlightened? attitude on race relations, says Gwynne. No one will really ever know what drove King to his madness, but the maintenance of the dialogue is one of the important factors that helped Jasper maintain...
Huppe worked with PSC President Jasper K. Smith in the administration of Boston University's College of Communications before assuming a public relations position at Dartmouth College in the mid-1980s...
...have been anteing up $10 each to see Wynn's collection of 20 paintings, from Degas to Picasso. Wynn has also made his presence felt as an art dealer. Since the Bellagio opened three months ago, Wynn has sold a number of pieces from the late 20th century: a Jasper Johns, a Lichtenstein, two Warhol pieces and Rauschenberg's The Small Red Painting, which purportedly went to billionaire publisher SI NEWHOUSE. "He has got rid of quite a few 20th century paintings and is starting to go into the Renaissance," says ALAN FELDMAN, Wynn's spokesman. In fact...