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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...free that long. This new Capone offer supported a theory, held by even those closest to Col. Lindbergh, that the proper criminals got Col. Lindbergh's $50,000 and then proceeded to turn the baby over to another gang. This gang could use the child as an instrument for extorting further ransom. Or it might make a favorable impression on the nation's prosecutors by returning the child gratis. It might use the child as a hostage, returnable for the freedom of some potent hoodlum (the Senator Bingham theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Hard Case | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...thing that really pushes my buttons is when people try to paint every legitimate action as a form of political correctness. I really find that that is a blunt instrument and that is McCarthyite tactics,” she said, provoking applause from many faculty members...

Author: By William C. Marra and Sara E. Polsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: LACK OF CONFIDENCE | 3/16/2005 | See Source »

...thing that really pushes my buttons is when people try to paint every legitimate action as a form of political correctness. I really find that that is a blunt instrument and that is McCarthyite tactics,” she said, provoking applause from many faculty members...

Author: By William C. Marra and Sara E. Polsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: LACK OF CONFIDENCE | 3/15/2005 | See Source »

...Concertino in Eb for Trombone and Orchestra,” by Ferdinand David, was acoustically the highlight of the evening. Professional soloist Nathaniel Dickey produced a tone sweet and pure, impressing the audience with his own virtuosic skills on the trombone and conveying a sensitivity the instrument is not usually associated with...

Author: By Madeleine Bäverstam, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Wind Ensemble Takes It to the T | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...point the entire ensemble went silent while one of the solo trombone players screamed, then kissed his instrument. The incongruence of this act in the midst of a night of classical music tellingly revealed the peculiarity of the program...

Author: By Madeleine Bäverstam, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Wind Ensemble Takes It to the T | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

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