Now for a little analysis. I have read a few accounts of Washington’s death and every single one of them begins with story of him riding in the sleet. Before I debate the issue of the epiglotitis, this part of the story needs to be dispensed with. Throat infections are caused by bacteria or viruses, and cold weather has little to do with it. Especially irksome is the assumption so many authors have made that not taking his wet clothes off after the ride was relevant. Wet clothes don’t produce bacteria, or attract it, or necessarily increase its virulence. Washington had to get the infection from someone else, but nowhere in the history is there an indication of a sick contact, or even a local epidemic. Hypothetically, Martha’s goodbye kiss as she sent her husband on his way after breakfast posed a greater risk to our Founding Father. Unfortunately, Martha’s health, as well as the state of health of everyone else in Mount Vernon at that time, is lost to history.

New York City detectives are still searching for clues in the gruesome murder of George Washington University graduate Imette St. Guillen, whose body was found last Saturday night wrapped in a quilt in Brooklyn off the Belt Parkway. St. Guillen, a 24-year-old graduate student at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, graduated magna cum laude from GW in 2003 with a major in criminal justice. "She always wanted to be a forensic and crime scene scientist, which makes this horribly ironic in a way," said Candy Bogatz, St. Guillen's roommate during their sophomore and junior years. "It was her ...



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