Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...employee of the CVS located at 1426 Mass. Ave. reports that a male placed four to five vials of cream in his backpack without paying for the items. When another employee confronted the suspect, the suspect said, "I'll kick your...
...gave several aliases, but a second man walking nearby who claimed he knew the suspect identified him as Amos Duncan...
This can only be good, especially for Boston, a city which fairly or unfairly suffers from a reputation of intolerance. The Red Sox were the last team in the Major Leagues to integrate, twelve years after Jackie Robinson, and their treatment of minority players has been suspect ever since. The city itself has had its own problems, especially with school integration. If something as relatively unimportant as baseball can help erase whatever sort of intolerance still exists, the Red Sox have done Boston a great service by signing Pedro Martinez...
...palms," consistent with what little we now know about the gory practice in the Roman Empire of the 1st century. "And those are real blood flows," following laws of physiognomy that were unknown to doctors or painters either in Jesus' time or during the Middle Ages. Against those who suspect the stains are faked or late additions because they have remained reddish, Wilson calmly produces an expert on ancient DNA who says blood from a traumatic death can retain its tint for millenniums. Wilson's conclusion, based as well on the eerie three-dimensional quality of the image's photographic...
...often uncomfortable with the emotional expressions of nationalist sentiment which Americans take for granted. For example, we appreciate the practical need for a national anthem, but are not going to worry too much about learning is words. Our tradition tends to be ironic and skeptical; we tend to suspect that those who wave flags are trying to distract attention from other agendas...