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There's another option being explored in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles. At night, what used to be dark hillsides are strung with lights from new tract housing. Those twinkling lights worked on Steve Bennett, a soft-spoken high school history teacher, until he'd had enough. Three years ago he co-founded SOAR (Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources) to get antisprawl initiatives on the ballot. It took just nine weeks last year for Bennett and his allies to collect the 75,000 signatures they needed. In November, large majorities in four of Ventura's five largest cities...
Siggins Schmidt described the anniversary concert as the ultimate introduction to folk music any Harvard undergraduate could hope for. Pamela Means began the show with a short set of soft-spoken, dark songs. Her hair, a square mass of dreads, sat on top of her head like an underground crown. After her, with far less hair, the Charles River Valley boys played a set that sounded more like the Ohio River Valley than the Charles, closing with a few Beatles covers that underlined the concert's sense of retrospective solidarity...
...Contemplative and soft-spoken, Wei-Ming questions the idea of performing for his students, even when lecturing in the grandeur of Sanders Theatre. Education should come before show...
...person, Mark Leyner barely resembles the fictional persona of his novels, the Lamborghini-driving, debauched literary superstar whose books can touch off riots in Third World countries. Leyner, a soft-spoken family man from Hoboken, N.J. has built a cult following from his outrageously funny fiction. The protagonist of Mark Leyner's latest novel, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, is a 13-year-old boy named "Mark Leyner" who has won a $250,000 per-year fellowship for a screenplay he hasn't yet written; his father, convicted of murdering a mall guard with a cuisinart, has been placed on "Discretionary...
...says Demetrius Tulloch, 20. "R. was always saying, 'Put your money up.'" And as always, Tulloch let the boy win his loose change. Just around the corner at the Wash Factory, R.'s eight-year-old buddy "E." was hanging around in hopes of earning some spending money. More soft-spoken than R. but no less ambitious, E. made a routine of dropping in to help manager Shirley Blanton keep the place clean. "He was always willing to pick up a broom," Blanton says...