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Maryland’s National Library of Poetry named Clifford Olson a semifinalist in its 1995 North American Open Poetry Contest, but disqualified him after it was revealed that he’s a serial killer. Olson, who was convicted of 11 murders in 1982 in Canada, wrote Success, which ends with the line “A life that is clean, a heart that is true, and doing your best, that’s success.”
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The four finalists for the 1995 prestigious Turner Prize, awarded this month in London, include Damien Hirst, who’s exhibited skinned cattle in formaldehyde arranged in copulating positions, and Mona Hatoum, who’s created a video of the insides of her mouth and other orifices.
Researchers at the University of Guelph in Ontario reported in August that pigs fed up to 30 percent chocolate “waste” appeared no worse off than pigs fed traditional corn foods, which cost much more. (Pigs are usually slaughtered long before they’d suffer the consequences of chocolate’s fat.)
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
