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Junior forward Laela Sturdy is Harvard's leading scorer entering the weekend, averaging 12.3 points per game off the bench. Miller and senior center Rose Janowski are averaging double figures as well with 11 and 10 points per game, respectively...
...bench, he defied racial stereotypes. When officials of a white union defending a job-discrimination case claimed a black civil rights advocate could not objectively preside over it, Higginbotham issued an opinion condemning the subconscious but widely held view that only white judges could decide racial issues fairly...
Until he was finally hit by the I.R.A. (to him, just more authority to affront), he was equally capable of cheekily parking on a police-station bench all night to give himself an alibi, or of crucifying a suspected informer on a pool table. Happily married, he kept his wife's sister as a mistress and sired children with both women. In this admittedly fictionalized retelling, his other reliable relationship is with an implacably pursuing detective (superbly underplayed by Jon Voight) who hates himself for succumbing to a psychopath's irresistible charm...
...LEON HIGGINBOTHAM JR., 70, esteemed federal judge and scholar; of complications from several strokes; in Boston. Higginbotham, a civil rights advocate who called himself a "survivor of segregation," was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom--the nation's highest civilian honor--in 1995 when he retired from the bench (see Eulogy, below...
With a comfortable 4-1 lead, the Crimson padded its total from the bench. After relying on the first line for all three goals against UNH, Harvard showed off its depth against Northeastern--four goals came from defensemen and the team's second or third line...