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Pie-Pie
In February, the Cherry Pie Three were sentenced to six months in jail for their November 1998 pieing of San Francisco mayor Willie Brown ("The Medium Is the Meringue," March/ April). The pastry tossers rejected an offer of probation on the grounds that it would interfere with their continued activism.
People Do
In a related development, the Biotic Baking Brigade whacked Chevron CEO Kenneth Derr with a pie in March. According to a BBB press release, Derr was targeted to protest Chevron's human rights abuses in Nigeria. Before hurling the confection, one of the pie throwers reportedly shouted, "Do people really kill Nigerians for oil? People do!"
Old News
CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a report in February on former General Motors lawyer Kenneth Starr's attempts to suppress the apparently perjurious testimony of a GM engineer in a 1993 civil case. But Mother Jones readers already knew the scoop on Starr: The story broke on the MoJo Wire in February 1998, a full year before "60 Minutes" ran the story.
High and Dry
The reparation fund for World War II internment camp survivors, which we reported was likely to run out soon
("The War Away From Home," Outfront, November/ December), dried up in February, leaving 455 Japanese Latin American internees without redress. The Office of Redress Administration has since been shut down.
