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...bungalows sit beside cardboard shacks, political avenues are closed to them; few have any sense of direction. Says Poet Adam Small, who lives near Elsies River: "People here are in limbo; they just don't care any more. Their children are bitter and ready for violence. Like the sand of the Cape flats, apartheid lies beneath...
...trusties worked hand in hand with the hired help, stealing provisions and supplies ordered for the inmates and selling them in black markets throughout Arkansas and as far away as Chicago. Those who managed the kitchen took bribes as payment for sand-wiches. Poorer prisoners made do with a spoonful of rice a day, plus soybeans, corn bread and water. The food was rancid and contaminated by weevils...
...bestsellers cannot be reckoned by Western standards. Even when books sell out they are rarely reprinted because of the arbitrary mechanics of the system. The real gauge of a work's popularity is how much it is ultimately worth on the flourishing black market. An example is Heavy Sand, by the popular adventure and mystery writer Anatoli Rybakov. Despite the large printing (150,000), readers could not get enough of this bathetic story of love and death among Jews in the Ukraine during World War II; copies now fetch $150 on the black market...
...them. Harvard should not have to wait on you hand and foot." She echoes many of her classmates when she says she has learned "more from the different people than from the books." Harvard has allowed Greis's attacking style to blossom; and some day, in some distant sand trap or in some distant office, when she has to attack to achieve, Leslie Greis will not hesitate...
...from over. "Implicit in the president's post office plan is that the registrants will keep the SSS informed of their whereabouts," Mills points out. "Anyone who thinks that 19-and 20-year-olds will stop to fill out a 'change of address' form has his head in the sand," he adds...