Word: murdered
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...with which he shifts the blame from the killers to "the neo-conservative movement" and to "Christian Coalition types" is rather disturbing, as well as his mentioning the names of Irving Kristol, Richard John Neuhaus, Pat Buchanan and our own Harvey C. Mansfield '53 in connection with the gruesome murder...
...vigil at the Massachusetts State House, which was organized by the Governor's Taskforce on Hate Crimes. Wasserman's article gives the impression that there was no Harvard presence at this important event and that the gay and lesbian community at Harvard has not reacted to the brutal murder of the openly gay University of Wyoming student. In reality, Harvard-affiliated attendees at the memorial vigil included students and faculty members from the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Law School and the Harvard Divinity School, many of whom are dedicated delegates to the Harvard Queer Leadership...
...quiet-man pal Russell Henderson, 21, both high school dropouts, who met Shepard in Laramie's Fireside Lounge. "After Mr. Shepard confided he was gay, the subjects deceived Mr. Shepard into leaving with them in their vehicle," reads the Albany County court filing of first-degree murder, kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges against McKinney and Henderson...
Among the tragic consequences of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination was that he was cut down before he could write his own assessment of his life. Now, 30 years after the murder, his family is attempting to fill the gap with the assistance of Clayborne Carson Jr., a Stanford University professor who edited King's papers. Sadly, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Warner Books, 400 pages, $25) does not deliver the sort of revealing self-examination that characterizes such powerful memoirs as the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass or The Autobiography of Malcolm...
WASHINGTON: How's he doin'? President Clinton spent the weekend raising millions of campaign dollars and riding high on a couple of hot-button issues -- the murder of Matthew Shepard and the marathon Mideast peace talks in Maryland. The former is to the '98 election what black church burnings were in 1996 -- the kind of hate crime that Clinton can really get his teeth into; a battle he doesn't have to fudge. The latter, even his opponents agree, has given the President some much-needed stature. Indeed, they're both such winners that Clinton is doing his best...