According to remarks made Tuesday, it is characterized "by greed and lust for power, by hot-blooded hatreds, and stone-cold hearts." Who was describing what?

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Tuesday's Question (No. 307)--"Scotch and So ...?":

Alexander Graham Bell, Mary Queen of Scots, Andrew Carnegie, William Wallace--what's the connection?

"They're examples of the kind of 'good immigrant' Pat Buchanan is looking for."--Alex Balk (Tom Reynolds had a similar answer.)

"All appear as characters in Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan."--MarkGreenberg

"They all invented the telephone."--Al Cloutier (all but identically, David Finkle)

"OK, so they didn't break the chain, and I did--what's your point?"--Julie Anderson

"Because of an ancient Scottish curse, anyone who writes a life of these four historical personages ends up reproducing, word for word and comma for comma, a long-out-of-print biography that they have never even read!"--Katha Pollitt

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