“By the mid-1970s, Bruce Ivins had earned his doctorate and was a promising researcher at the University of North Carolina. By outward appearances, he was a charming eccentric, odd but disarming. Inside, he still smoldered with resentment, and he saw a new outlet for it. “Several years earlier, a [University of] Cincinnati student had turned […]
Archive for October 10th, 2011
He came in through the bathroom window….
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged anthrax attacks, bruce ivins, kappa kappa gamma, unc chapel hill on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In Pinehurst, a general grand but not grandiose
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged alistair cooke, george c. marshall, pinehurst on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“In the last few years of his life [George C. Marshall, General of the Army and recipient of the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize] used to drive downtown most days from his small house in Pinehurst, North Carolina, buy his groceries in the supermarket, tote them to his car to the accompaniment of a nod from […]