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...unremarkable Saturday-night scene: a topless bar in working-class Detroit, shouted epithets, an ugly brawl. But this particular fight was one-sided and fatal, and turned out to be a bleak commentary on the emotions running high in Motor City in June 1982. The victim, Draftsman Vincent Chin, 27, a Chinese American, was at his bachelor party; he was to be married in nine days...
According to Olivas, the five khaki-uniformed guards who met Aquino aboard China Airlines Flight 811 were unarmed. As Aquino stepped off the plane, escorted by the guards, a single fatal bullet entered the nape of his neck and passed in a downward path through his chin. Seconds later, soldiers gunned down Rolando Galman, who, Olivas contended, had "suddenly darted toward [Aquino] and shot him from behind...
...House:David "Ches" Chesler Vincent Chang Phil GardnerFrank Childress Vanessa Davita Michael J. GeorgeDuncan Jeffrey Griffin Timothy Keating Kerry KlagarJeff Rosen Keith Knuuti Brian MelendezLiese Schwartz Ferced Mangalji Betsy WangerCurrier House: Elizabeth Tafe Winthrop House:Richard A. Bennett Lowell House: Jerry BrownPhyllis Bursh Adam Augustynski Victor FreemanStu Raphael Marshall Chin Eliot KievalDavid Scott Allx Coulter Kelly KiegarTrevor Sutton Erica Eisenberg W. Stephen WatersDudley House: John G. McCallister Canaday/Union Dorms:Frank Brincheiro Mather House: Eric KoideSteven A. Colarossi James Chiavelli Jessica LevinMichael LaCascia Kira Diaz Gina LevyVivian Sogor Rafael Lopez Dudley McClellanDavid Vendler Steven Nussbaum Toni TeaseDunster House: Jake Stevens Bentley...
...through the crack under her bedroom door, and summoned doctors. They broke in through her windows and found Marilyn Monroe dead. By her bedside stood an empty bottle that three days before had held 50 sleeping pills. One hand rested on the telephone and the other was at her chin, holding the sheets that covered her body...
President Roosevelt, without hat or overcoat in the chill wind, swung around to the crowd before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell...