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During his junior year, Appelbaum made two 90-minute trips to suburban Burlington. After riding the subway and a bus--and walking several miles in each direction to a hunting club--he received 20 hours of training in handgun safety and maintenance. He fired some 30 rounds with a shotgun en route to receiving NRA certification...
...Burlington, Iowa, grocer, Matsch, 66, was appointed to the federal bench by Richard Nixon in 1974, and has presided over cases ranging from school desegregation to murder by extremist groups. He and his wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does...
Just inside the Flynn Theater in Burlington, Vermont, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield stand aside as twentysomethings stream by to find seats at a rare hometown concert by the rock band Phish--a treat the ice-cream magnates have sponsored to raise money to clean up nearby Lake Champlain. A girl recognizes Ben. "Could I, like, make a suggestion?" she asks. "It'd be really great if you could make a marshmallow for us vegetarians...
Lachenmeyer found that nearly everyone in the shops and restaurants on Church Street in Burlington remembered the proud bearded man in greasy, lice-ridden clothes who sat erect on park benches and somehow survived the coldest winter in local history. Police called him "Chuck" and said he arrived in 1992. He was comfortably dressed at first. But his disability checks stopped coming because of bureaucratic fumbling, and he became tattered and filthy...
...declared himself the U.S. President and sentenced everyone to death. But medicated in the state hospital, Charles returned to his professorial style, helping a nursing aide rewrite a graduate paper that would get an A. Discharged and again collecting disability, he rented a tiny room above a restaurant in Burlington--and died there six weeks later of heart disease...