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Burge is the first biographer fully to exploit this trove, and although the letters reveal nothing dramatically new ( "It is a paradox born of the convincing nature of the new letters that they do not substantively affect the main points of the story," as he nicely puts it), he uses them to explore the striking blend of intense intellectuality and eroticism that characterized Heloise and Abelard's relationship.
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Burge is the first biographer fully to exploit this trove, and although the letters reveal nothing dramatically new ( "It is a paradox born of the convincing nature of the new letters that they do not substantively affect the main points of the story," as he nicely puts it), he uses them to explore the striking blend of intense intellectuality and eroticism that characterized Heloise and Abelard's relationship.
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More than 30 people, many of them police officers, have sent letters to Lefkow asking for leniency, with one calling Burge a "policeman's policemen."
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More than 30 people, many of them police officers, have sent letters to Lefkow asking for leniency, with one calling Burge a "policeman's policemen."
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More than 30 people, many of them police officers, have sent letters to Lefkow asking for leniency, with one calling Burge a "policeman's policemen."
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More than 30 people, many of them police officers, have sent letters to Lefkow asking for leniency, with one calling Burge a "policeman's policemen."
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More than 30 people, many of them police officers, have sent letters to Lefkow, with one calling Burge a "policeman's policeman."
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David Bates, who served 11 years in prison after he said officers under Burge's command coerced him into confessing to murder, called Burge the tip of the iceberg.
Federal Prosecutors: Burge Trial Could Be The First Of Many 2010
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I went to grade school and high school with Jon Burge, who eventually would become the Chicago police captain charged with using torture to obtain confessions, I went to Cub scouts and Hebrew school with "Chicago" Eddie Schwartz, the popular radio personality, who recalls Burge having knowledge of torture techniques back in the AV Club at Luella Elementary School.
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We have perhaps the compelling pictures of them making their way out, the joyous reunions of those four men, all of them part of the so called Burge (ph) 10, that is, 10 people on death row who were -- they claim had confessions tortured out of them.
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