Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burgundy Cadillac races along the Mississippi highway, droplets of rain stipple the windshield and storm clouds signal rougher weather ahead. Dr. Tom Tucker, a circuit-riding abortion doctor, is on his car phone with a clinic. "How's it look?" he asks. There's a problem: it seems a large, angry man is raising hell in the parking lot while 40 antiabortion protesters picket the clinic. "This," says Tucker, his right hand slowly sliding down to touch the 9-mm Glock pistol wedged beside his seat, "is where I start to feel the tingle...
...Tucker cranks up the CD player and blasts out his theme song, Simon and Garfunkel's Keep the Customer Satisfied. With fingers tapping on the steering wheel, he belts out the lyrics ("I get slandered/ Libeled/ I hear words I never heard in the Bible"). Then he unsnaps the gun's holster. "They may kill me," he says, "but I'm going to take some of them with me." Tucker knows that someone out there may really mean business; only last winter an antiabortion extremist shot and killed David Gunn, an abortion doctor who rode the circuit just...
Three Harvard students, Jessica S. Yellin '93, Joshua A. Tucker '93 and David A. Aronberg '93, also spoke...
Yellin and Tucker, like Edelman, called for a sense of social responsibility and commitment to freedom, with Tucker delivering an imaginary "25th reunion" speech dwelling on the loss of American democracy in the year 2008 due to a failed commitment to social justice...
Rodhamize: vb -ized; -iz.ing To begin using your maiden name again as soon as you can get away with it. ("Dan, I'm rodhamizing. I'm going to be Marilyn Tucker Quayle...