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...were then ordered to produce Harvard identification cards. I watched the police officer grab his gun as I slowly reached for my wallet. (I had learned to reach for my wallet slowly after having a .9 millimeter pistol placed at my temple during a "routine traffic stop" at age sixteen). After a close examination of our pictures and our faces, the cards were returned. We were then offered, not an apology, but an explanation. It turns out that a Black male had committed an armed robbery in Cambridge earlier that afternoon, and, naturally, we are suspects...
...Commencement day, for example, Officer Robert Cooper took a nine millimeter semiautomatic Glock pistol and two fully loaded magazines from a man outside the Au Bon Pain restaurant in Harvard Square. And last month, Detective Richard Mederos was involved in a high-speed chase and shootout with a New York man wanted for murder near the Medical School...
...right to close the book with this touch of cute domesticity. Let's remember who Katherine Power was and what she did. This was not a flower child caught up some wild afternoon in a robbery. She was found to have in her apartment three rifles, a carbine, a pistol, a shotgun and a huge store of ammunition. She is accused of having fire bombed a National Guard armory. She took part in a bank robbery in which a hero cop, father of nine, was shot dead. This is someone very hard who has now softened -- out of feelings...
...Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell talked with students in front of Au Bon Pain on Commencement Day, a Harvard patrol officer quietly took a Glock semiautomatic pistol from a crazed man standing just a few feet away...
Power was not a wide-eyed nonviolent radical who had fallen into a bad crowd. Power herself was ready, if not willing, to kill for her cause. In her Back Bay apartment, police found three rifles, a carbine, a pistol, a shotgun and a huge store of ammunition. She is accused of having fire-bombed the National Guard Armory in Newburyport, Massachusetts -- just days before the bank robbery...