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...Bahat '98 says that Ec 10 tops the listnot only because it satifies the basic requirementfor any social sciences class, but also because ofthe professors' renown...
...drives a delivery truck for the newspaper his father owns and edits, the Moat County Tribune. Jacks elder brother Ward has become a star reporter at the (also fictional) Miami Times as one-half of an investigative team; he and his partner, Yardley Acheman, have won statewide renown with stories on a plane crash and a fraternity-hazing death. These two fetch up in Moat County looking into the 1965 murder of the local sheriff and the subsequent trial and conviction that put one Hillary Van Wetter on death row. The reporters hire Jack as a driver and general factotum...
...north of the country, and Home Sweet Home in English. Pedis are the largest of the northern Sotho groups, and these jubilant returnees were members of a community that had lived and farmed there in Doornkop for more than 70 years. They tilled the fertile soil and earned renown for the juicy peaches they sold. In 1974 their homes, schools and churches were bulldozed by the National Party government, and they were driven into the wilderness, victims of the country's apartheid laws, which reserved 87% of the land for whites. Today the Pedis are among the first black South...
Thanks to its grotesqueries, the Mutter is beginning to trade offbeat obscurity for popular renown. Five years ago, it drew just 4,300 visitors; this year's attendance will be nearly four times that. Says Worden, who has appeared on David Letterman's show three times: "We're getting better known because we're just so interesting." The museum's photo calendar, she adds, sells briskly. The first ones, issued in 1993, are now collector's items, at $40 apiece. Each picture, like each exhibit, is a memento mori, a ghoulish reminder of our own mortality, malevolently fascinating, weirdly beautiful...
...Leibovitz's scholarly endeavors alone could not account for his national renown when he passed away last August. Indeed, the obituaries and encomia for him in Israeli newspapers made only casual mention of his academic career. Leibovitz was remembered--and will continue to be remembered--as a twentieth century gadfly, a latter-day prophet...