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When black World War I veterans appeared that night to stop the lynching, all hell broke lose. The Tulsa police department commissioned several hundred white men as deputies to help put down what they thought was a “negro uprising.” According to widely circulated reports, the new deputies were told to “Go out and kill you a damn nigger.” Throughout the night groups of armed men went into the police station, planning their next moves...
...nonconformist and noncorporate attitude. The magazine itself does not support its editorial staff full-time, and at this point profitability is more of a fantasy than a priority. But Hermenaut’s continuing lack of regularity and security means that it can pretty much do whatever the hell it wants. Like take a dunk tank to the Burning Man Festival and document the resulting events in the pages of Issue...
...than 1,000 letters of support for his move. These days, while other investment managers are scanning their market data at dawn, Lynch is making school lunches. Says he: ''I loved what I was doing, but I came to a conclusion, and so did some others: What in the hell are we doing this for? I don't know anyone who wished on his deathbed that he had spent more time at the office...
...Band plays a dismal gig at a Chicago Hard Rock Cafe, asking the indifferent crowd to pop by its concert later in the week and help it win a TV game show. "It's all based around money," lead singer Dodes explains. Self-consciously, he grins. "And what the hell isn't?" For a moment, the phrase reality TV seems just about right...
...There is hell on earth. It is just north of Angola's capital, below the sprawl of the teeming informal market of Roque Santeiro - one of Africa's biggest - where years of refuse dumping have formed a scarred ridge of eroded ground and spewed garbage. More than 1,000 people live here. They are born here, they breed, bleed and die here. Only the devil could have come up with the name for this place: Boa Vista, which means beautiful outlook...