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Raised in Glen Ellyn, Ill., a Chicago suburb, Anderson first studied the violin but decided to major in art history at Barnard College in New York City. Influenced by minimalists like Sol LeWitt, she tried her hand at sculpture. In the '70s, Manhattan galleries also featured musicians like Minimalist Composer Philip Glass, and Anderson gradually drifted into performance art. In one early conceptualist effort, she stood playing the violin while wearing ice skates implanted in a block of ice; when the ice melted, the piece was over...
...high school students. To augment Macalester's appeal, he pulls out a picture of downtown Minneapolis and says, "You remember when Mary Tyler Moore tosses her hat over the city? That's where it goes." Spike Gummere of Lake Forest College, which is in a Chicago suburb, tells students that the city is close enough for easy access, but also lets their parents know that it is far enough away for safety. He assures one boy: "You can walk to the lake with your girlfriend at 11 o'clock at night." Karen Crowell of Knox College reminds...
Lake Forest, Ill., an affluent Chicago suburb, put together a slick 16-page Gift Handbook (subtitle: A Tradition of Excellence Through Giving), which lists such unbudgeted items as a $30,000 artificial lake for the 18th green of the municipal golf course, a $2.5 million indoor pool and a $1.2 million indoor tennis facility. While these wishes still await their fulfillment, Lake Forest has received $104,000 in donations since the list came out in September, including trees for the city's parkways, landscaping for city hall, an exercise trail in a city park and an oak table...
Like other taxpayers who have got into trouble with the IRS, Wilkinson sought to blame his difficulties on a technical mistake. "It was a major bookkeeping error," he explained from his headquarters in Denham Springs, a rural suburb of Baton Rouge. Wilkinson claimed he discovered the error himself while scanning the organization's financial records. He dutifully reported the mistake to the IRS, he said, but it slapped the Klan with hefty penalties anyway. He added, "They were unkind. They put the maximum of everything...
...broadcast by NBC last week, Agca, staying in Majorca, telephoned Çelebi in Frankfurt. The gunman reportedly said, "I have received the sum we agreed. I'll go to Rome to carry it out." Agca allegedly then called another Turk, Omer Bagci, a restaurant worker in a Zurich suburb, and instructed him to deposit in a baggage room at the railroad station in Milan the Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol used in the papal shooting. On May 9, according to Agca, he arrived in Milan from his Majorca sojourn and picked up the gun. Four days later...