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...been very slow here," said Eileen L. Schaub, warden at the Larsen Hall precinct. "People aren't hooked by local issues. With a national candidates there is a large turnout...

Author: By Christopher Ortega, | Title: Election Day Choices | 11/3/1993 | See Source »

...England, where the action takes place, a benevolentish dictator has seized total control. The public allows him this power in return for guarantees of order, and the uninterrupted supply of all modern conveniences. But Xan Lyppiatt, the improbably-named Warden, resorts to questionable methods to achieve those ends. Elderly citizens, who have become a burden on society take part in supposedly voluntary mass drownings; the regime deports all violent criminals to a penal colony on the remote Isle to Man, where they butcher one another indiscriminately, and everyone undergoes humiliating fertility testing in the hopes of discovering a fertile couple...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: P. D. James Beyond Mystery Novels | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

Into this demi-monde blunders Theodore Faron, Professor of History at Merton College, Oxford and cousin to the enigmatic Xan. A revolutionary cell, outraged by the injustices perpetrated by the Warden, approaches Faron to ask him to use his influence with his cousin. His mission comes to naught, but he falls gushingly in love with a soft-spoken revolutionary, and vows to help her change the world...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: P. D. James Beyond Mystery Novels | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

...Moore 7-10 1-4 15, Maloney 5-10 0-0 13, Allen 1-1 0-0 2, Baratta 3-4 0-0 6, Krug 3-6 2-4 8, Kegler 6-10 1-1 16, Moxley 0-2 0-0 0, Laster 1-2 0-0 2, Warden 2-2 0-0 4, Hans 1-2 0-0 2, Guthrie 0-0 0-0 0, Metz 0-0 1-2 1, Totals...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Quakers Demolish M. Cagers, 81-62 | 2/20/1993 | See Source »

When Whitley took the wardenship, he signed on for three years. Extending his stay, he says, depends on how much he feels he can accomplish. It is clear Whitley wants more: more medical, culinary and maintenance staff, a bigger hospital, more classroom space. Like every other warden in America, though, he runs up against budget limitations. "This is shortsighted," he says. "What you send out of prisons is going to reflect what you had in them." If that includes the warden, Angola's graduates are now just a little more likely to come out fair, decent, straight up. Just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Decency Into Hell: JOHN WHITLEY | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

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