Word: though
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...your wife. Your father dies. Your mom and your sister are the only ones who keep coming. Your momma is the only one who loves you." So Cain says his main job is to give the 5,108 hopeless men on this former slave-breeding farm hope, even though 86% of them will stay here for "life and one dark day." The dark day is the one after they die, when their body gets embalmed and waits to go home and get buried, although the truth is that when they die, no one comes, and they get buried right here...
...months ago, though, some prisoners lost it, lost the hope, and one of them took a guard hostage. Burl Cain couldn't talk the hope back into him, and they had a shootout. "He got one of ours, and we got one of theirs," he says. "It all worked out in the end." And wrong as that sounds, in Angola that's how it is, and there's no hiding from it, and I feel so lucky to go back to a place where heaven and hell and sin and redemption are just philosophy...
...beats--and getting neo-hippie kids twirling to old Mississippi Fred McDowell tunes and hard-core kids moshing and crowd surfing to primal Robert Johnson licks. Their debut CD, a raucous collection of hill-country standards called Shake Hands with Shorty, is generating ecstatic reviews, and though purists complain that the Allstars play adulterated blues, most folks in north Mississippi (and on college campuses) aren't interested in museum-ready music. They'd rather dance...
...approach, though, does not result in fairy tales. Fire and the Baptism, while including ghosts and spirits, follows the lives of two kidnapping victims, one black, one white. In A Visitation of Spirits, the teenage Horace Cross attempts to transform himself into a bird to escape the ostracism he will face if his homosexuality is exposed in his religious community. Instead he unleashes an army of demons that haunt him as he is haunted by what he sees as his sin. It is with Horace that Kenan claims the most affinity, and his plight seems a supernatural rendering of Kenan...
This time, though, a man named Don Sweeney got in the way. Sweeney, a civilian economist with the corps for 22 years, was asked to head a team to justify the cost of the new locks. He found that they would not be needed until 2040 and that any slowdowns would simply force shippers to shift to railroads or trucks. Sweeney's military bosses were not pleased, he alleges, and they booted him off the panel in 1998. "They told me to get the answer they wanted, or I'd be gone," says Sweeney. Then they used corps-friendly numbers...