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DIED. Samuel Bowers, 82, who was the Imperial Wizard of the militant White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi during the 1960s, when the Klan instigated a campaign of anti-Semitic and antiblack intimidation and violence; in a prison near Jackson, Miss., where he was serving a life sentence for the 1966 bombing of the home of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer. Each of Bowers' first four trials for the Dahmer murder ended in a mistrial. He was finally convicted in 1998, but Ellie Dahmer, the victim's widow, was unappeased. "He lived a lot longer than Vernon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 20, 2006 | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...Gutmann, the daughter of a Jewish metallurgist who fled Nazi Germany in 1934, is drawing fire from pro-Israel leaders. The Zionist Organization of America wrote in a letter to the president: “Would you have done the same if he had come dressed as the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ink Spilled Over Penn Chief's Photo Faux Pas | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

...with a healthy dose of destiny dust. Ever since stud sophomore running back Mike McLeod and quarterback Matt Polhemus got picked up by the po-po for fighting some hockey players, the Bulldogs are 3-0 and seem blessed. Two straight overtime wins suggest the protection of a friendly wizard but his magic might run out. Your defense is suspect and an evil witch is brewing a pick-your-poison three-week spell of Brown, Princeton, and Harvard, of course, to close out the season. Work on the antidote during this tuneup.You’re playing Columbia, silly. Even...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Choose Your Own Ivy League Winners | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

HARRY POTTER The Roman Catholic Church's top exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, told Vatican Radio earlier this month that the beloved boy wizard of fiction was the "king of darkness-- the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call It An Axis of Devil | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

While Dorothy left the Midwest to find her wizard, 85 Harvard students will travel to heartland America in early October to meet the man Time Magazine named the “Wizard of Nebraska”—the legendary investor Warren Buffett...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: They’re Off To See the ‘Wizard’ | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

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