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...murder sent shock waves through multiple communities. Luna left a wife and two young sons. He had made good friends at every stop on his Horatio Alger--style rise from his South Bronx youth to law school to a fine clerkship to his last, prestigious post. Reggie Shuford, a former roommate, offered typically lavish praise: "He was just the nicest guy you would want to meet--sincere, compassionate, charismatic, engaging, interested, interesting, devoted to his family and friends, loyal to them, hardworking, intelligent, charming, straightforward. He was as good as they come." Vowed Luna's boss, U.S. Attorney Thomas DiBiagio...
...classic Horatio Alger story. Unfortunately, he was like Horatio Alger on steroids." JOHN C. COFFEE, Columbia University securities-law professor, describing the blue-collar background and $139.5 million pay package and other benefits of ex--New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso, who resigned amid anger over his compensation...
...classic Horatio Alger story. Unfortunately, he was like Horatio Alger on steroids." JOHN C. COFFEE, Columbia University securities-law professor, describing the blue-collar background and $139.5 million pay package of ex-New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso, who resigned amid anger over his compensation
Earlier that same year, Harvard Law School graduate Alger Hiss was sentenced to prison for almost four years after lying under oath about his associations with Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist...
...same hour on Capitol Hill, Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers raised their right hands to be sworn in before the House Un-American Activities Committee. And so the cold war's First Battle of Bull Run began, eventually producing divisions in America almost as dramatic as the racial ones. That word indivisible is a handsome thought, which we rally to in wartime and generally preserve as an ultimate ideal, but it has rarely described American history as it is enacted on the ground. America is more interesting than the pietisms it lavishes upon itself...