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...Save a Life. The victim's parents sued the university, the psychologist and two hospital psychiatrists for $200,000 for failing to warn them or her about Poddar's threat. Alameda County Superior Court found no grounds for the suit, but the state supreme court's new ruling sends the case back to trial. Substance of that ruling: confidentiality between therapist and patient must yield "when a warning is necessary to prevent a violent attack." Moreover, therapists could be liable to civil damages, unless it can be shown that "sound professional judgment" was used...
...train. Ali's training camp in Deer Lake, Pa., overlooking Amish country, could be described as rich rustic. The $200,000 compound consists of five buildings in a log-cabin motif, including a fully equipped gym. Foreman trains in the drab mineral and gem exhibition hall at the Alameda County fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., near Oakland. For dressing quarters he uses the ladies' room...
...Alameda County district attorney, and later as state attorney general, Warren was a zealous law-and-order prosecutor, but he also had a scrupulous regard for the rights of the prosecuted. "I never heard a jury bring in a verdict of guilty but that I felt sick at the pit of my stomach," he admitted...
...Oakland is another irritant for the A's. For a town that has long looked for some characteristic to distinguish it from San Francisco across the bay, Oakland has been slow to seize on the distinction of the A's. Attendance at games in the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, a modern ballpark situated only a few minutes' drive from downtown Oakland (pop. 361,561), averages a meager 6,400 per game. And many of the fans who do show up come from communities half a day's drive away. Annoyed by the lack of support...
Under the CHUL's new guidelines for assigning freshmen to Houses, 344 freshmen are assigned to live at the bottom of Muddy Pond, and the computer revokes the admission of students from Alameda, Calif. and all of New Jersey. "Next year, we'll try a slightly different system," F. Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen, announces; "We shall assign freshmen according to their ability to play polo, their lack of resemblance to women, and their likelihood to become rich alumni...