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When Nichols Pierre, a cattle tender, boarded the Dieu Veut, he carried only a torn plastic satchel of clothes and a new pair of shoes that he hoped would bring him luck in America. In the course of selling everything else he had ever accumulated, Pierre discovered that at age 38, his net worth amounted to slightly less than $23. Now it is zero; he sleeps on the floor of friends' houses and begs or steals food to survive...
...done many a verbose indictment of capitalist culture, but this time he seems to have got his epigram down. The first thing you see is a wall with a blown-up image of Hitler visiting the 1934 Venice Biennale. The floor of the rest of the gallery has been torn up into a litter of marble debris, which clatters ominously as visitors stumble across it. On the wall behind, the single word: GERMANIA. A one-shot piece, but right on target...
...innate 10-second delay of the careful lawyer. Says Schafran: "She thinks first and then speaks. She has learned to be unafraid of dead airtime." She is equally careful in her writing. A former clerk, David Post, says he'd often get a draft back from her "totally torn apart. Every word got examined, literally." At first, Post didn't like clerking for her. "It was very painful. But I'll be forever in her debt, because that's what the law is -- language...
...particularly when it comes to fulfilling the expectations of a populace impatient to see political power translated into a more equitable distribution of resources. "People have suffered so much that they now expect the opposite," says Harry Gwala, a senior member of Mandela's African National Congress in strife-torn Natal province. "But we can't perform miracles...
...members of the class of 1968, whether torn by the war, or left to lead their lives as they wished, were deeply impacted by the events surrounding their year of graduation...