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...Alabama match was the toughest for us. It was the most heart we put into a match," said the team's captain, Gina Majmudar...
...against Alabama, the top singles positions had difficulty finding a "W", while the doubles effort rebounded well, but in the end could not muster enough fuel to bounce the eventual East Regional Champions...
Then, in arguably the match of the season, Harvard delivered a come-from-behind, five-hour 5-4 victory over the No.2 seeded Alabama team...
...Whites in America (Knopf; $30), reaches similar conclusions. Shipler embarks on a sprawling, impressive tour along the "crucial fault line of America," crafting an absorbing theater piece of characters, from undergraduates at Princeton to probation officers in South Central Los Angeles. In one scene, a white waitress in Alabama jabs at a former school principal, a black man, for having suspended her 20 years earlier. The banter is lighthearted, but Shipler perceives more. "How galling...to feel helpless before a black man in authority," he writes. "How vividly the echoes of resentment reverberate into the present...
...willing to exclude experts." The results are dramatic, even pivotal, in cases involving breast implants. Last year Judge Robert Jones of Oregon used the findings of his own panel of scientists to exclude the plaintiffs' evidence in some 70 cases brought against implant makers. Federal Judge Sam Pointer of Alabama is evaluating pretrial evidence in 22,000 cases. To this end he has carefully assembled a four-member expert panel. Its conclusions and videotaped depositions are expected to influence not just Pointer but many other judges as well in determining what should be allowed in court. His report is expected...