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...summer or two ago on a lake in Ontario, I let my canoe drift on a light breeze down the shoreline of a piney island. A muskie, 4 ft. long, mistook my canoe for a floating log and came to laze in my shadow, his surly, prehistoric head 3 ft. from mine in the emerald water. He rippled his ventrals and pectorals to stabilize his dreamy suspension. I moved only my eyes at first, and then not even those. At length, not thinking, I shifted my arm on the gunwale. The motion roused the fish from its dream. It finned...
...young when he was made a professor that some students mistook him for a freshman," said an anonymous physics concentrator. "One year, a group of freshman started hanging out with him, trying to help him be more social and fit in with the other freshmen," he added...
Diallo, an unarmed immigrant from West Africa, was shot and killed by four New York City police officers in February 1999. The police officers said they mistook him for a rape suspect and mistook a wallet in his hand...
...cars--even Mom's or Dad's--which can attract unwanted police attention. Other parents have given an emphatic thumbs-down to cell phones. Why? A police officer might mistake it for a weapon in the hands of a young African-American male, just as the cops say they mistook Diallo's wallet for a gun. Other parents restrict their kids' clothing. New York City police detective Clifton Hollingsworth won't let his sons wear hip street fashions. No backward baseball caps or pants drooping down below their waist, because such clothing can send the wrong signals to police...
Diallo was shot 19 times last year by four New York City police officers while standing in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment. Last month, the officers--who said they mistook a wallet Diallo was holding for a gun--were acquitted of second degree murder charges in connection with the death...