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...think my hiring had anything to with Jeff's leaving, but if it makes a good story, what the heck?", says Benson, who quit a job as a coach in Athens, Greece to take the Crimson helm. "In all seriousness, though, we've got some serious challenges ahead of us, and a big part of my job will be trying to placate the sting of Jeff's leaving. The team really relied...
...Johannesburg Star and aligned himself with the crop of young, white photojournalists who wanted to expose the brutality of apartheid -- a mission that had once been the almost exclusive calling of South Africa's black photographers. "They put themselves in face of danger, were arrested numerous times, but never quit. They literally were willing to sacrifice themselves for what they believed in," says American photojournalist James Nachtwey, who frequently worked with Carter and his friends. By 1990, civil war was raging between Mandela's A.N.C. and the Zulu-supported Inkatha Freedom Party. For whites, it became potentially fatal to work...
...unfortunates: the hardworking homeless. To step off the main drag of a glistening little jewel like Telluride, then, is like stepping out the back flap of a circus tent: Lord, there's a caravansary of gypsies parked back here! The chief of Telluride's housing authority, Dave Johnson, quit in June, citing job stress. The problem, says Jim Davidson, editor of the Telluride Times-Journal, "brings instability and a surly work force. We can't expect nice worker attitudes when people come to work begging a shower...
...drew up a resolution asking him to step down effective immediately. When rumors spread that Chavis was out, 20 of his young supporters attempted to rush the meeting and were prevented from entering only when N.A.A.C.P. staff members blocked the entrance. Several Chavis supporters declared they were going to quit the organization...
...late for Kenneth Starr to quit as the new Whitewater independent counsel. And he should. In fact, it's the Republicans rather than the Democrats who should be urging his resignation. Consider the two possible outcomes of Starr's investigation and the way in which the White House will spin them. If Starr determines the Clintons did something wrong, he'll be tarred for partisanship. If he exonerates them, the Administration will crow that even a conservative Republican found the Clintons innocent. "That sounds sensible," says a Republican Senator, "but if Starr slams Clinton, we think the facts will drown...