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...classmates on a Sierra Club petition to oust Interior Secretary James Watt. "I thought it had something to do with electricity," he jokes. But by the time he reached high school, he had become a vegetarian, formed an antivivisection study group, bought a truck to recycle the school's trash and, as a senior, founded the Sierra Student Coalition. At Brown he nurtured it into a nationwide corps of 30,000 activists. He was elected to the Sierra Club's 15-member board of directors in 1994, and last spring his colleagues voted him in as president. His mission...
Nothing--and everything--prepared Kevin Smith to become, as he has been called, "the King of Gen X cinema." The son of a postal clerk in Highlands, N.J., he recalls an uneventful childhood "in a white-trash town. I watched six hours of TV a day. I read comics and went to Mass on Sundays. In high school, I worked as a busboy. On weekends, we'd hang out and make crank calls and go drinking. Defining moments of my generation? When Fonzie jumped over the shark tank in Happy Days...
...awards at Sundance and Cannes. "A totally welcome blast of stale air," raved a critic. "Grunge Godot." Smith was 24 and already anointed by Hollywood, but his next movie, the $6 million Mallrats, flopped. Now, at 26, he is back onscreen with the acclaimed Chasing Amy, a witty, trash-talking, politically incorrect comedy on the theme Boy Meets Lesbian...
...think they were lenient in those days," he said. "I turned in some trash that did alright...
...civil fraud case recently unsealed in Los Angeles, the U.S. textile industry, which includes manufacturers such as Springs Industries, claims it has revealing evidence that the Limited knowingly purchased reams of Chinese apparel mislabeled to indicate that it was manufactured in Hong Kong. Private detectives rooted through the trash of the Limited suppliers to develop the case, which the retailer vigorously contests, pointing out that the U.S. government has so far declined to join the action. The Limited faces millions in damages if the charges are substantiated...