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...implications of the Carol Stuart murder case hold significance not only for society at large but for the Harvard community as well. The Stuart murder and last year's shuttle bus incident involving two Black students reveal how deep the roots of prejudice against Black people in America still run. Many whites still allow racial stereotypes to obscure their ability to think rationally about crime...
Instead of suspicion, Stuart was showered with sympathy. The media apotheosized the couple as starry-eyed lovers out of Camelot cut down by an urban savage. Some politicians attended Carol's funeral; others called for the death penalty. Mayor Raymond Flynn ordered all available detectives to work on the case. Hundreds of men in Mission Hill whose only connection to the case was that they were young and black were stopped and frisked...
...course Reading Period is all about education. This year was hard, though. The newspapers would not let us forget how narrow Harvard's horizons are. For the rest of Boston, Reading with a capital R is pronounced not "Reeding" but "Redding." As in Reading, Mass., where Charles and Carol Stuart owned their nice, comfortable suburban home...
...after the childbirth class. When Matthew arrived for the rendezvous, Charles tossed a bag through his open car window to his brother and sped off. Later Matthew went out to the Pines River in Revere, outside Boston, and tossed the bag into the water. Last week divers recovered Carol Stuart's Gucci bag, wallet and makeup kit from the river. Matthew also turned over to the police Carol's diamond engagement ring, which supposedly had been stolen...
...after his wife's murder, Stuart collected an $82,000 insurance payment. Some reports claimed that he had also taken out more than $500,000 in extra life insurance; others alleged that Matthew and Charles had earlier plotted to fake a burglary of the couple's house, during which Carol would be killed. A Boston television station reported that on the night before he died Charles confided to a family friend that he killed his wife for the insurance money. He wounded himself in the abdomen when his plan to shoot himself in the foot went awry. Other reports suggested...