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...document, Wheeler called himself the "co-author" of four books with English Professor Marc Shell that are either under contract or under review with several major university presses. Willis G. Regier, director of University of Illinois Press, said in an interview Wednesday that "Wampum and the Origins of American Money" is indeed under contract with UIP, but Shell is the only name listed on the contract for the work...
...Finally, feel free to tip us in cash, war bonds, wampum, or your daughter’s phone number. What? Your daughter’s only 14? I’ll settle for her screen name. Oh, come on. At least give me her Xanga page...
...Everyone was less enthused when it emerged that at one of the Connecticut casinos Schlesinger/Gold used to patronize, he had gotten a "Wampum card" - a kind of frequent flier bonus card issued to gamblers based on the volume of bets. Opinion dropped even further when, after he said he couldn't remember having any gambling debts, it came out that Schlesinger had paid more than $28,000 to settle lawsuits with two Atlantic City Casinos in 1990 and 1994. Schlesinger calls the gambling stories 20-year-old non-issues, and says he never broke any laws...
...return to Leverett House in the fall to write his economics thesis on Native American reservation cash flows. A RUN-IN WITH A GANG Meat’s friends were reluctant to reveal details of his death at the annual Harvard Powwow, where mourners placed money, tobacco, and wampum on a blanket to deliver to his family. Weeks before his death, Meat had been walking on a South Minneapolis street when members of the Sureno 13 gang allegedly harassed him. On May 5, Meat and two friends returned to the house. As he spray-painted “derogatory remarks...
...darkened over Radcliffe Yard, the mourners solemnly covered a ceremonial blanket with money, tobacco, and wampum destined for the family of Clarence D. “Duane” Meat ’05-’07, who died Wednesday after being shot in Minneapolis. One by one, they ran their hands over their faces and through their hair, miming the motions of cleansing that the Native American ceremony is meant to evoke. As four men wailed and beat a drum, the first raindrops fell...