Word: assassine
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Quincy House is Harvard's answer to a James Bond movie this month, as the house is engaging in its annual game of Assassin, and 46 newly-paranoid students are skipping meals and avoiding unprotected public places as a result...
...Assassin has been a Quincy House tradition as long as students can remember. This round began Tuesday at midnight, when the master assassins assigned players their victims...
These scenes and numbers are connect by the sentiment that the assassin's stories make up a single history which is a uniquely American one, the despair of people whose dreams have not come true in a country whose citizens can, and do, expect so much...
...match Starrs, who even as a young boy was fascinated by Sherlock Holmes mysteries. So far, Starrs has unearthed the victims of Alfred Packer, America's most infamous cannibal, to discover whether Packer was a murderer as well. (Yes, he was.) He also exhumed Carl Weiss, the alleged assassin of Louisiana Governor Huey Long; Weiss, in turn, had been shot by Long's bodyguards. Based on discrepancies between the bodyguards' testimony and bullet marks found on Weiss's bones, among other clues, Starrs concluded that it is more likely that the bodyguards themselves murdered their boss. Now Starrs wants...
...seconds after Mohammed Boudiaf spoke the words "We are all going to die," an assassin in uniform raised his submachine gun and fired, killing the 73-year-old Algerian head of state. Boudiaf may have thought he was merely making a philosophical point in his address to a crowd at a cultural center in the Mediterranean port city of Annaba. It was his first trip outside Algiers since he took office after a military coup in January. In the confusion and panic that followed, 41 other people were wounded by gunfire and grenades...