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Magoon had been on the roof of the three-story building with a few friends and was climbing down to his top-floor apartment to get a couple of sweaters when he fell, his father, Elbert Magoon, said...

Author: By Aditi Banga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Med Student Falls to Death | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...investigation into the death revealed that the building’s fire escape ladders had not been inspected in over five years, in violation of Massachusetts law, according to Elbert Magoon. He said that the building’s owner has received a fine for the violation...

Author: By Aditi Banga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Med Student Falls to Death | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...good athlete and a great student, but most importantly, he was an empathetic person who did a lot for others, his father Elbert said...

Author: By Aditi Banga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Med Student Falls to Death | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...brutal regime that compassion could only dictate he had already paid for his crimes. Colonel Denise Vowell, the Army's chief judge, apparently agreed. She recommended to the commander of the U.S. Army Japan that the 30-day sentence be suspended for clemency's sake. The commander, Major General Elbert Perkins, ignored the suggestion, although according to standard Army confinement rules, Jenkins' sentence was ultimately reduced by five days for good behavior. "I have made my peace with the U.S. Army," Jenkins said after his release, "and they have treated me very fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Mistake | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...then there was the riff on loyalty from an old Elbert Hubbard essay, which Rowley received from a number of retired agents. A paraphrased version of Hub-bard's words used to hang on the walls of FBI headquarters while J. Edgar Hoover was director. It read, in part: "If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him; speak well of him and stand by the institution he represents. Remember--an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness ... If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault, why--resign your position and when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coleen Rowley: The Special Agent | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

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