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...Five months on, Wang's son has yet to be buried. His elm coffin, carefully sealed with tar to contain the stench, rests inside the family's house. "We won't bury him until the police acknowledge their mistakes and compensate us," says Wang. And that's a macabre form of defiance that has become something of a movement in Lanshan county, an agricultural backwater in Hunan province that is anything but bucolically peaceful. Locals say there are more than 20 victims of fatally violent crimes who remain unburied as a gesture of protest. Their coffins are displayed in homes...
...Tar Heels drew a peak audience of 7,842 fans for its regular season finale against Duke last month. The Crimson—whose best home crowd this year has been about 6,000 fewer—can’t wait to play on such a big stage...
This year’s North Carolina team isn’t as renowned as either of Harvard’s opponents in 1997 or 1998. This year’s Tar Heel team went 24-8 and placed second in the ACC regular season and tournament. Last year, North Carolina went 15-14 and missed the tournament entirely...
...concerned not with social conditions but psychic ones--boredom, isolation, acidity, glee, the feral thrusts of the libido and a weirdly sinister expectancy. His new work owed less to Evans and Dorothea Lange than it did to the tabloid-news photographer Weegee, the king of every New York tar...
...newsmen, they headed for the dark, towering mountains to the east. Thus, last week, the first compulsory migration in U.S. history set out for Manzanar, in California's desolate Owens Valley. In the cavalcade were some 300 Japanese aliens and Nisei--U.S. citizens of Japanese blood...In the unfinished, tar-papered dormitories where they will live until the war ends, they made their beds on mattress ticking filled with straw...Some projects with which the Army may keep its guests busy: laying broad-gauge track on the railway down the valley; driving a highway across the Sierras...In San Francisco...