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Former gridders like Edward M. Kennedy '54 and Torbert H. McDonald '40 moved on to careers in the Senate and House of Representatives. And Endicott "Babyface Assassin" Peabody, a football hero of the early 1940s, went on to serve as governor of Massachusetts...
...That Voice Again" and "In Your Eyes," his conception of what makes a good love song remains hazy and mired in cliches. These two tunes feature overly generalized and hence pointless lyrics set to often generic synth harmonies. Although Gabriel is capable of invading the mind of a political assassin, as he proved on the earlier "Family Snapshot," he seems absolutely at a loss to express anything interesting in his more amorous pieces. And his attempt at satirizing the pursuit of success, "Big Time," seems strikingly out of place on an album geared to appeal to the intoxicated youth...
...mark. Pete Dexter's novel is packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall was hanged for the killing, but in the Dexter version, the jury takes one hour to acquit the assassin, "on account of his mortal grudge against Wild Bill, and self-defense...
...security, however, did not prevent an apparently deranged retired army officer from bursting into a house where he thought Bhutto was staying, claiming that he wanted to marry her. "Just a simple legal ceremony will do," he told reporters. Bhutto hinted that the man might have been an assassin...
...midweek news conference that his officers had followed up on 4,000 leads and interviewed 600 people. He also announced that the 120-officer team investigating the case was being expanded to 300, and that the police were offering an unprecedented $70,000 reward for information leading to the assassin's conviction. Said Holmer: "This is a murder that cannot be compared to any other...