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What started the fire? The Grammy Award-winning singer had written a letter to the Miami Herald in support of a volunteer who was kicked off a Metro-Dade arts board. Peggi McKinley was fired for saying officials should end their ban on Cuba-based artists performing at county-sponsored events. As a result of the law, the French-based organizers of a major Latin American and Caribbean music conference had threatened to abandon Miami as a future venue, a move that would cost the city millions of dollars. "As an American," Estefan wrote, "I am frightened...
Each successive scene tells the story of another assassin in a similar way. The assassins' stories are fictitiously intertwined: Charles Guiteau, who eventually assassinated James Garfield; Leon Czolgosz, who killed William McKinley; Guiseppe Zangara, who attempted to assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt; would-be Gerald Ford assassins Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Sara Jane Moore; Sam Byck, who plotted to kill Nixon; and John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan. The time gap separating each of the assassinations (or attempted assassinations) is given no heed: placing these disparate events side by side allows them to interact in a kind of fantastic sphere that...
...Keating's junk-bond customers consider him "the Hannibal Lecter of finance," as one put it, he clings to his claim of innocence, blaming regulators and Congress for his troubles. Indeed, some of his fellow inmates told TIME that he never admitted guilt or regret for his actions. Kevin McKinley, a convicted Irish Republican Army weapons dealer, grew close to Keating as the two walked the prison yard. As he put it, "Charlie was never a rat. He refused to sell out his associates and wouldn't compromise with the government just to get a better deal. Charlie believes...
This, of course, is virtually every President's Inaugural music. William McKinley, the stolidly worthy Ohioan who presided over the last turn of the century, made such complacent sounds. Richard Nixon's line was "Bring Us Together." He did the reverse...
BORN: Dec. 3, 1924, Beach City, Ohio EDUCATION: Mount Union College, B.A., 1948; William McKinley School of Law, LL.B., 1952 FAMILY: Wife, Mary; three children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: Navy, 1944-46 OCCUPATION: Lawyer; businessman POLITICAL CAREER: Ohio Board of Education, 1960-64; Ohio House, 1965-66; Ohio Senate, 1967-72; U.S. House, 1972- ADDRESS: 733 42nd Street, N.W., Canton, Ohio...