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...course Reading Period is all about education. This year was hard, though. The newspapers would not let us forget how narrow Harvard's horizons are. For the rest of Boston, Reading with a capital R is pronounced not "Reeding" but "Redding." As in Reading, Mass., where Charles and Carol Stuart owned their nice, comfortable suburban home...
...Stuart Case wasn't a revolution. It didn't grant any new freedoms or even any access to Western consumer goods. It didn't even take any away, at least not permanently. But still, it was a veritable event, an honest-to-goodness happening...
Unlike Martin Luther King's birthday, the Stuart Case didn't stop the mail; also unlike Monday's holiday, the Stuarts' travails were too big for even Harvard to ignore. who wants to read textbooks when the headlines in The Globe resemble a clan of giant cockroaches? Who wants to study for "Social Analysis 34. Knowledge of Language" when there's racial strife going on right now, right here in Boston...
Three days after his wife's murder, Stuart collected an $82,000 insurance payment. Some reports claimed that he had also taken out more than $500,000 in extra life insurance; others alleged that Matthew and Charles had earlier plotted to fake a burglary of the couple's house, during which Carol would be killed. A Boston television station reported that on the night before he died Charles confided to a family friend that he killed his wife for the insurance money. He wounded himself in the abdomen when his plan to shoot himself in the foot went awry. Other...
...week's end police had not divulged the contents of a note Stuart left in his new Nissan except to say that Stuart could not bear the allegations made against him. The closest thing to a confession the stunned community may ever get was in Stuart's farewell letter to his wife. "We must know that ((God's)) will was done," wrote Stuart. "In our souls, we must forgive the sinner, because He would...