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Shane McCammon
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- News, July 3, 2003
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Dream Team
Fantasy is changing the way Americans follow sports, but is it for the better?
- As Benny Santiago steps to the plate, the 50,247 fans at Dodger Stadium first get quiet and then start screaming for Guillermo Mota to throw a goddamn strike. Mota, the Dodgers’ wiry middle reliever, has just walked two straight batters to load...
- News, May 15, 2003
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Lost Cause
Sudanese orphans hope the United States intervenes in their homeland’s 18-year civil war.
- Augustino Dut Kuol saw the dust and smoke on the horizon. Confused, the boy asked his father what had caused it. “He said, ‘Maybe it’s the Arabs burning houses,’” Augustino says. “He said that in two days, you will...
- News, May 15, 2003
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Why Salt Lake?
With a low cost of living and cheap housing, this is the place for war refugees.
- When Kamal Bewar arrived in Salt Lake City in the early 1990s, the Kurdish community consisted of himself and six or seven other single men who got off the plane with him. Alone and struggling to learn English, he found it hard to adjust to his new, strange...
- News, May 15, 2003
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The Exile Files
The diverse backgrounds -- and futures-- of Utah’s war refugees
- Kon Garang Akok towers over the second and fifth graders peppering him with questions. They want to know the tall, thin Sudanese man’s favorite African animal, if anybody in his family died and if there are any white people in Africa. “Did...
- News, May 15, 2003
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No Tomorrow
Many of Utah’s Bosnians don’t see a future in Europe or away from the bacon factory.
- The coffeeshops are full again in the summer of 2001, and vacationers from Chicago, Toronto and Sydney eat ice cream at outdoor tables. On the streets, some of which used to be sniper alleys, old friends bump into each other. They talk about their families...
- News, May 15, 2003
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The Good Life
With Saddam gone, Iraqi Kurds and Shias think of going back. Will they be accepted?
- The uprising was three hours old when Ali Almaliky’s suddenly limp body fell to the hot ground. At first, there wasn’t any blood, but soon Ali was nearly drowning in a lake of it. The bullet entered Ali’s neck and traveled along his...
- News, May 8, 2003
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Fragged
How the Trib scandal mixed ethics with newsroom politics—and brought down the editor.
- Jay Shelledy was still holding court. Only a few hours removed from writing his farewell column and handing his resignation to publisher Dean Singleton, the very recently former editor of The Salt Lake Tribune was perched at the table of his eastside...
- News, March 6, 2003
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The Phony War
The newspaper war isn’t between the Deseret News and the Tribune but between major dailies and smaller papers.
- Rumor has it, Jay Shelledy recently threw one hell of a hissy fit. Every morning for the past month, the editor of The Salt Lake Tribune has had to walk past a brightly colored sign announcing his competitor’s switch to morning publication....
- News, January 9, 2003
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Arch Rivals
Utah members lead a revolt against the Sierra Club for putting politics ahead of the environment.
- Patrick Diehl still hasn’t gotten around to replacing his front door. Pieces of plywood cover the holes kicked in the door three summers ago by neighbors upset with Diehl’s environmental activism. He jokes that it’s a kind of shrine...
- News, December 19, 2002
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Marxist Utahpia
And you thought it was dead. Marxism is alive and well at the University of Utah.
- When Al Campbell was drafted, he couldn’t afford the one-way trip to Canada. Instead, he told the Army he was a Marxist and that he would continue to actively organize opposition to the Vietnam War. He wasn’t lying, but they took him anyway,...
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Marxist Utahpia
And you thought it was dead. Marxism is alive and well at the University of Utah.
December 19, 2002
