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...robber, who was wearing a surgical mask, placed the currency in a bag and fled the seen at approximately 11:15 a.m., according to Detective Richard Gardner, the officer who handled the case. The bank has not yet disclosed the amount of money stolen...
...liberty of bank robbers and murderers is far better protected than my liberty as a small Cambridge landlord. The government must prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a robber indeed committed the murder. Not so with landlords. (The Big Lie again.) Landlords are insatiably greedy despots...
...artist, as anyone might if he had to be constantly compared with Rubens, his master, and Titian, his even greater model. Especially, he is not well known to the American public, though some of his finest paintings are in America, owing to the vogue for his portraits among the robber barons of the early 20th century. Those who saw "Van Dyck in England," organized by Oliver Millar for the National Portrait Gallery in $ London eight years ago, are not likely to forget the impact of its high- strung, cool virtuosity. But the show did not travel...
...America's greatest strengths is its capacity for renewal; it has shed its skin again and again to re-emerge with new life. It rebuilt itself after the Civil War and Reconstruction; it reformed itself after the cruelties of the 19th century industrial surge and the excesses of the robber barons; it picked itself up after the Great Depression; it made tremendous strides in race relations through the civil rights movement; it achieved at least partial healing after the bitter national split over Vietnam and the counterculture's nihilism...
...were just lying here and suddenly there was a crack and a bang," said Leonard. "It sounded like someone had thrown in a brick through the window...a good, loud noise." The robber entered the store by breaking its front window, police said...