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...Presidency, but it was a different one. Two years ago a hundred million people looked to this cheerful, charming gentleman to do something in the greatest industrial crisis on record. This year they used their ballots again, not as a desperate hope but as a grateful reward for services rendered. President Roosevelt might not have done all the things he promised to do and all the things he did do might not be for the country's good in the long run--but what he did do seemed so much better than the deeds of any other single citizen...
...hunters led federal agents to that truck, mired to its axles in soggy woods near Rudolph's trailer in Murphy, a hamlet tucked into the southwestern corner of North Carolina. By the weekend, the FBI had enough evidence to charge Rudolph with the bombing and offer a $100,000 reward. That evidence, investigators say, includes explosives residue in the truck and in a storage shed Rudolph had rented, fibers from a blond wig like the one a witness had seen a man remove as he ran from the bombing scene, and a folding shovel with dirt believed to match...
...suspects told the student that they all would receive a reward for finding the purse if they could produce $1000 in cash...
...they have a wallet...that has a huge amount of money in it and try to persuade you to go to a bank...or a credit union. They go into the bank...and come out and say you have to give them money [to get the reward]," McNamara said...
...there is a limit to how thin this rationale can stretch. After two record-breaking years of endowment growth, the University can certainly reward itself for its good stewardship by opening the bank vaults just a little--enough to fund those needs that Harvard students have been clamoring about for years, such as smaller classes, better advising, remodeled athletic facilities. Just how much money is this mere 1 percent? Last year, the University collected $147.9 million in undergraduate tuition. $111.6 million could wipe out 75 percent of this...