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...wrote that a boy had told him he had been abused by Shanley at a cabin in the woods. In 1983, according to two lawsuits recently filed against Law, Shanley began repeatedly molesting two 6-year-old boys in his parish, St. John the Evangelist, in Newton, Mass. Gregory Ford and Paul Busa both say Shanley would regularly pull them out of catechism class and make them play the card game War. Whoever lost had to perform a sexual act, says Busa, now 24. The abuse lasted for about six years, he says. No criminal charges have been filed...
Many of Pusey’s former colleagues attended, including former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and former Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford, who greeted and ushered guests to the Memorial Church pews...
...historical vignettes depicting presidential assassinations and attempts, beginning with assassination “pioneer” John Wilkes Booth and ending with Lee Harvey Oswald’s shot from the book depository. Time and space are fluid. Garfield assassin Charles Guiteau gives a shooting lesson to would-be Ford assassin Sara Jane Moore, and Booth suggests to Guiseppe Zangara that he might relieve his stomach pains by shooting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. Allowing the assassins throughout history to meet each other highlights the common themes that drove them to do the unthinkable...
Appropriately, we are (almost) never asked to laugh at anyone who succeeded in killing a president. But several failed attempts give fodder for the more humorous scenes in the show, allowing us to laugh only in the comfort of knowing that Ford and Nixon survived. While they are never without a serious subtext, several scenes are highly comic. The two scenes leading up to Fromme and Moore’s attempts on Ford are priceless, delivered with impeccable timing and grooviness by bell-bottom-and-love-bead clad Goldin and Gaffney...
Ezra F. Vogel, Ford professor of the social sciences emeritus at the Fairbank Center, said Harvard’s Asia Center welcomed Akiyama as an expert on the U.S.-Japan security relationship...