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Cole is being charged for biting the thumb of James A. Visbeck, a dealer in rare look based in Cotuit, Mass...
...Back in '76, they didn't have a lot of technology we have now." --Key West, Fla. Sherffs's Detective Jay Glover, explaining why police held onto the thumb of a murder victim killed 18 years ago A new test conducted on the thumb led the police to apprehend two suspects in the murder this week...
...Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835) are here, along with a death cast of the original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, connected at the chest. (Their fused liver sits in formaldehyde in a display tray below.) Floating inside a small glass bottle, item No. 13,671 is a thumb-size brown chunk of flesh "procured at the postmortem" of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin. (Last week Booth's ancestors petitioned for exhumation of his body from Baltimore's Greenmount Cemetery, hoping to prove that the man killed by federal agents in 1865 was not the infamous actor. The descendants...
Visbeck managed to grab the case again, but Cole didn't let him hold on. Instead, the Harvard Ph.D opened his mouth and bit Visbeck's left thumb, drawing blood. Visbeck let go, and Cole drove away...
...really think the essence of leadership is not just sticking out your thumb and seeing which way the popular wind is blowing," Kim said...