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...even when he was in his mid-70s, you could see the old Golden Glove boxer and ex-Marine who'd refused to back down. He once modestly said about his work, which he wouldn't have called art, although it unquestionably was: "I project myself into a person. I look at everything, the arms, the hands, the expression. I wait for the moment ... I shoot." As if that were all it took...
...were actually border-patrol officials conducting a joint operation with Canadian authorities. By then, though, panic had spread throughout the state, prompting phone calls from state senators and representatives. To this day, there are some patriots who still don't believe Weed's explanation. "I was accused by one person of being seen getting off a U.N. helicopter at an airport wearing a blue helmet," Weed says...
...read a little profile on them, and they seemed nice,” said Cabot House resident Amelia H. Lin ’11 about Harvard Business School Professor Rakesh Khurana and his wife Stephanie Khurana. “I know a person involved in the selection, and I trust they have good judgment...
Many more examples exist. Violence against political figures is not new and the motives are diverse. I’ll always remember seeing President John F. Kennedy in person a few hours before he was shot by a communist sympathizer in 1963. One survey counted that nine U.S. presidents have been attacked (four killed), as have three presidential candidates, seven U.S. Senators, nine congressmen, eight governors, 11 mayors, and 17 state legislators...
...Another potential issue is whether the card will result in people being wrongfully denied work. The average person isn't equipped to determine whether two fingerprints are a match - even FBI fingerprint experts have their off days, as when they incorrectly implicated a Portland, Ore., attorney in the 2004 bombings in Madrid - which means employers would be relying on an automated system. And that, as well as the fingerprinting process itself, invariably leads to some small number of mistakes. (See how border-patrol officials are securing the perimeter...