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...conjures powerful pictures in the theater of our national mind. But it can also be misleading. Lots of Americans can't stand one another, don't trust each other and are willing - even eager - to believe the worst about one another. This story is as old as the gun used by Vice President Aaron Burr to kill his political rival Alexander Hamilton. And it's as new as the $1 million-plus in fresh campaign contributions heaped on Republican Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina after he hollered "You lie!" at the President during a joint session of Congress. Anger...
...backfired down the street. Tom recalls that I was suddenly nowhere to be seen. Turning around, he saw me flattened on the pavement. 'You never know,' Tom recalls me saying. His memory is probably true. Even now, I'm startled by sudden noises. I flinch at twenty-one-gun salutes at Arlington to honor the fallen in Iraq. My reaction is subconscious - I know I'm not in danger - but it still cuts through...
Finn M.W. Caspersen, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a prolific philanthropist who raised and donated huge sums to the Law School, died last week of an apparently self-inflicted gun-shot wound. Caspersen, the former Chairman of the Beneficial Corporation, a consumer finance corporation, donated over $30 million to the Law School and served as the chairman of the successful capital campaign which ended last year and raised $476 million, the most successful fund-raising campaign in the history of legal education. Caspersen’s death comes at a time when his fund-raising abilities may have...
Meanwhile, a 61-year-old retired Yale employee armed with a gun and ammunition, believed to be targeting Yale's HR building, was spotted and arrested on the same block. “We presume that he was headed toward a University building because it’s all University buildings around there,” University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer told the Yale Daily News...
...various points in his life Connor has been a musician, a bank robber, and a cat burglar. He’s gotten into violent vendettas against Boston police, been put in jail, and broken out armed only with a gun carved out of soap. He even owned a pet cougar. But Connor is most notorious as a master of the art heist—so notorious that he was suspected of the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum while incarcerated...