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...Faced with Hulett’s guilty plea, Judge Cashman—a Vietnam War veteran and former prosecutor known for handing down harsh sentences from the bench—found himself up against a classic dilemma: seek rehabilitation or settle for retribution. In this case, a bizarre twist in Vermont law made the choice particularly stark. Because Hulett was classified as “low risk” by the state corrections department, he would be ineligible to receive mental health treatment in a traditional prison. To get Hulett into a treatment program, Judge Cashman had to keep...
...Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) studio classes, the range of talent and interest is immense, as is the variety of media––from “ready-made” to animation––but there is an inclination to evoke and twist the mundane...
Leo’s gift for languages draws the attention of the rising fascist government, which recruits him as a translator. This takes him to Paris, where he meets the love of his life, who agrees to marry him on the strength of one pastry. But a twist of events sparked by the discovery of his Jewish heritage forces him to flee to Shanghai to start anew...
...Last year we really wanted to address the issue of bi men, and that didn’t work out,” Lepon said. Bisexuality Weeks began on Sunday night, with a screening of the 1995 film, “French Twist.” Ochs said it was important to spread information about bisexuality because bisexuals face unique prejudices. “Bisexuality does not get its fair share of attention when it’s included as one of the letters in the chorus,” Ochs said in an interview before her workshop...
...work that revisits a historical figure as popular and as abundantly studied as Thomas Jefferson must provide a new spin. In “Jefferson’s Secrets,” Burstein boldly attempts to use Jefferson’s understudied retirement years (1809-1826) as the twist, providing a new lens through which to view and perhaps reevaluate our third president. Burstein studied the massive amount of retirement correspondence to investigate Jefferson’s views on his mortality, slavery, his relationship with Sally Hemmings, and political opposition...