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...founded Diversity & Distinction in 1995, said that he thought the magazine has provided an important starting point for minority journalists like him who are now working for major publications. Luo now writes for the New York Times and has received both the Polk Award and the Livingston Award for his excellence in journalism, said Jennifer 8. Lee ’98, who helped Luo launch the magazine and now also works at the Times.Luo, who wrote for The Crimson before founding Diversity & Distinction, said that he started the magazine because he wanted a publication that people of all backgrounds would...
...dialogue. Sophie, Hans, and other student members calling themselves a part of “The White Rose” are interrogated at the Gestapo headquarters, where the slimy, power-hungry officer Mahler (Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08) persuades reluctant Gestapo Chief Mohr (W. Brian C. Polk ’09) to hold the captives indefinitely. Mohr, in fact, stays true to his promise and does not let his prisoners go free...
...interrogation—led in the play by actor Polk, who brings an explosive energy to Mohr’s doubts and contradictions—is tense and thick with words, ideas, and inspiration. Polk ably acts as the central pivot of the play and is brilliantly convincing in his portrayal of an individual truly torn between bureaucracy and humanity...
...power plants that would burn manmade "natural gas" derived from coal. The gasification process, which is also the first step in turning coal to diesel, would strip much of the filth and toxicity from coal before it's burned. Tampa Electric already uses this kind of technology at its Polk Power Station, which started out in the mid-90s as a joint project with the Energy Department...
...facing a more basic problem: figuring out how to implement the laws. Just days before the new residency ban took effect, officials were scrambling to determine exactly which of the state's 6,000 registered offenders would have to move, and mapping out pedophile-free zones in places like Polk County, which has more than 1,400 registered day-care centers and 90 schools. What's more, Des Moines police sergeant Barry Arnold, who is overseeing the law in the state capital, estimates that the whereabouts of some 15% to 18% of the city's convicted offenders is unknown because...