Prof Henry Gates' account of his arrest
hm, lose a few billion from the endowment and all of a sudden there is no respect
the accounts are surprisingly consistent, but Prof Gates made one major mistake:
Skip, dood, you were in China and didn't stay for the eclipse!?!
what were you thinking...
oh, and sorry about the way the police treated you, bit of an overreaction there by the sound of it
PS: just in case anyone is confused by who I think overreacted:
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