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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...
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...
...actually considering skipping President Obama's much-touted speech on health-care reform before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9, for fear of being caught on camera applauding any health-care initiatives. "There are a lot of freaked-out moderate and swing-district Democrats who are now gun-shy, regardless of what is in the bill," says Charlie Cook, editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races. "The question might be how much a bill would have to be shrunk to get a majority of 218 votes, and if they do shrink it enough...
Unlike Jeffrey Wigand, the tobacco-industry whistle-blower made famous in the movie The Insider, Potter doesn't have a smoking gun or secret documents to unveil. He signed a confidentiality agreement before leaving Cigna and intends to honor it. "I have no intention of disclosing any proprietary information," he says. For-profit health-insurance-industry practices Potter talks about, like rescission - dropping expensive-to-cover policyholders on grounds that they failed to disclose pre-existing health conditions - are not secrets. This is, in fact, how private health insurers make profits. In Potter's view, these practices just need more...