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Roby swore allegience to Cambridge ("I've been at Harvard for almost four years now and I've become attached to Cambridge."), but the Crimson's shooting must have made Roby wish he could return to the Big Green bench. Harvard hit only 18 of 56 floor shots for a 32.1 percent success mark. Meanwhile Dartmouth, led by red-hot Mackay, finished the game at 43 percent from the field...
Geraldine bustles into the center and is greeted by Zaida, a soft-spoken receptionist and a longtime resident of Sunset Park. There are many phone calls to return. Sister Mary Paul has gone to a budget hearing in the city. A Puerto Rican family of four sits on a bench, looking friendly and anxious. Geraldine leafs through her messages, then looks up suddenly. "Zaida! Wait till you see the new awning...
...overturn or reduce the award. Journalists, high-priced lawyers, Wall Street traders and more than 200 onlookers last Tuesday squeezed into a cramped fifth-floor room in the Harris County Civil Courts Building, anticipating a decision. Casseb's verdict was expected at 1:30 p.m., but after taking the bench he called a recess so Pennzoil and Texaco could conduct last-minute discussions. Finally, at 5:17 p.m., the judge read his ruling: the jury's decision will stand. On top of the award would go $3 million a day in interest payments. Total amount now owed to Pennzoil...
...reels. "Now all the whites in the league can play," testifies Silas, an assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets. "Well, anyway, the majority of them. There are even a few fringe black players today. Rather, let's say there are black players sitting at the end of the bench. They are usually rookies with potential." The role players, those utility workers who "do windows," continue to be white...
...tobacco companies. "First Amendment theory says that if speech is troubling, we counter it with speech that responds." Undaunted, the A.M.A. will soon begin drafting model legislation. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court could signal its current thinking on the subject of ad bans in the next few months. The high bench is expected to rule on a First Amendment challenge to a Puerto Rican law that bans local advertising by the island's legal gambling casinos...