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Officials at the Hays County Jail in San Marcos, Texas, should have been suspicious when inmates bought hundreds of yards of dental floss from the prison commissary. The inmates were not concerned with dental hygiene. They braided the floss into a rope that they fashioned into a ladder with stirrups made of fabric threaded through cardboard salt and pepper shakers. Using hacksaw blades smuggled into the prison in the soles of bathing slippers, the trio managed to saw through two of three Plexiglas panels in a window of their dorm cellblock...
...Gates scrambled rapidly up the career ladder, starting as a junior analyst who struggled to write coherent reports after poring over mountains of information from a wide range of secret and public sources. He quickly drew praise for cogent analysis and crisp writing -- traits still evident in his scholarly articles and speeches...
...ladder, you just bump down one rung, but so does everyone else," says Jon M. Biotti '91. "We are still ahead of certain other college grads so therefore everything is relative...
...problem is too much reverence for the subject, not enough respect for the audience. The higher one climbs on the power-and-influence ladder, the more ponderously didactic the drama becomes. The opening scenes, set in a poor black school district in South Carolina's Clarendon County, are affecting because they are grounded in hardscrabble reality. The injustice here is that black children must walk miles to their one-room schoolhouse because county officials claim there's no money for a school bus. The white school district, meanwhile, has 30 of them...
...Because it took place entirely within U.S. borders, that second massive relocation slipped by with less notice than the first, until the nation woke to find itself transformed. By the time their numbers had tapered off, around 1970, many of the travelers were embarked upon another journey -- up the ladder of class advancement. But almost as many were rattling in the dungeons of the underclass, causing reverberations throughout American life...