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Playing Chess. . . in Prison - Photo Gallery - LIFE -
In 2008 and 2009, German photographer Oliver Fluck accompanied a Princeton chess club to the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, where the students squared off against some of the facility’s inmates. Fluck trained his lens on the encounters, capturing a focused, contemplative side of the prisoners that perhaps few on the outside ever get a chance to see. The project, Fluck told LIFE.com, opened up his perspective, especially when talking to men who challenged his notions of what a criminal would be like. “The world is more than black and white,” he said. Above: Inmate Miguel Suarez is pictured.
Politicalprof: There's no such thing as "American" oil -
So at one point of the Republican “debate” last night, the mutually-interrupting blatherings of the various candidates turned to the Republican shibboleth that the United States has vast untapped resources of oil and gas and that if we just drilled for them—often in environmentally sensitive…
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