Word: gerald
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...neon signs blaring HIT THE PREZ! WIN A PRIZE!, opens the show by luring in a parade of customers like John Wilkes Booth, John Hinckley and Charles Guiteau, the "disappointed office seeker" who shot President James A. Garfield. Hinckley and Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme--wannabe assassins of Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, respectively--sing a duet about unrequited love, in their cases for Jodie Foster and Charles Manson. One musical number ends in an electrocution, another in a hanging. Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon, talks about wanting to crash a 747 into the White House (a line from...
...Gerald J. Smith, the president of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, said the success of the Goldwater Scholars in other fellowship competitions attests to the impressive achievement of the scholars...
...professor at the Kennedy School of Government and director of Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, sat aside Greenberg for the duration of what was essentially an exchange between two major players in presidential politics. Gergen himself served as an adviser to U.S. presidents Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan and Clinton...
...used against her in court. Indeed, the whole case flowed from her ill-advised explanation to investigators that she had a stop-loss order at $60. "She and her lawyers violated the first rule of criminal defense, 'Don't talk to the cops,'" says Manhattan criminal-defense attorney Gerald Shargel. That assumes, of course, that the hands-on Stewart was following her lawyers' advice. The fact that she agreed to meet with investigators not once but twice leaves Shargel flabbergasted. "If she had just kept her mouth shut, nothing would have happened," he says. Stewart was initially solely represented...
...Blair’s thesis is intriguing, but his analysis is weak. The only link Blair can muster is their shared slave ancestry, the potential starting point for an argument which requires far more space to unfurl than he allows. And, in a particularly ineffective passage, Blair goes after Gerald Boyd, the black managing editor who was forced to resign, along with Managing Editor Howell Raines, in the wake of Blair’s fabrications...