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About two dozen of us stood with unlit candles, gathered in front of Memorial Church to remember the swiftest and most violent bloodletting of our time--the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Dusk would blend into night with the grace of a returning spring, but none of us noticed. Our attention was instead focused on a slew of academics, activists victims who with a moving mixture of eloquence, pomp and passion, described those three months of unbridled insanity and lamented the rediscovered hollowness of slogans like "Never Again...
...experience unto themselves. C.J. has sectioned off a corner of the store and enclosed it in brown crushed-velvet curtains. The problem with this solution is that the thick material blocks the light from entering the shower-stall sized compartments. And after an attempt at changing in this cramped, unlit space, the shopper must (potentially risking embarrassment) emerge into the store to check the look with a mirror...
...heaven's back door, just below the largest stretch of unbroken wilderness in the continental U.S. There are no cars, no roads, no buildings beyond a shelter or two, and on any given day more grizzly bears than people. This is America as the explorers found it, still sealed, unlit, unwired, resembling most perfectly the place the Unabomber wanted America...
Instead, they wound up in an unlit section of Ophelia Bonner Park. The park was once a well-kept, bustling playground before Jefferson Elementary School was closed a few years back. The city stopped maintaining the park, and it became a jungle of trees and debris. "You could lay down in the weeds and nobody would ever have seen you, the grass was so high," says Kenneth Hairston, 38, who lives next to the park. "It's a shame somebody had to die there before the city thought about cleaning...
...phone and ask Gallo to change his design, he said it would have been "useless" to try. "Frankly, given his reputation, I didn't trust whatever he'd answer anyway." Jackson's flamboyant attorney, Fred Furth, a towering figure who strolled the courtroom corridors chewing on an unlit cigar the size of a flashlight, constantly jabbed at Gallo's "jug wine" reputation and drew a rebuke from the judge when he derided Gallo as the company whose wines "fry people's brains." Furth is in the business too: he owns the widely acclaimed Chalk Hill Winery...