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...mayors in Indianapolis were impressed by the gesture of accessibility. Said San Diego's Frank Curran, a Democrat: "It was brand new, having the President and his men come down off their pedestal to talk. We weren't talking up to the judge on the bench...
...blame their troubles on U.S. Attorney Cecil Poole, 55, who obtained the indictments from the grand jury on his last day in office. A black and a Democratic appointee, Poole had served in Northern California since 1961 and has twice been blocked by politics from ascending to the federal bench. The last occasion was when his appointment by Lyndon Johnson was withdrawn after the Republicans took office. He was recently appointed a professor at Berkeley's law school, and Madigan hints that the indictments were designed to mollify his liberal new associates at the university. The accusation is weak...
...heart. Skeptic, agnostic and above all rationalist, he won his first fame as a mathematician, later as a philosopher by creatively applying mathematical methods to the linguistic mysteries of meaning. His most notable work, Principia Mathematica, written with the collaboration of his fellow mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead, is a bench mark of 20th century philosophy. Paradoxically, though, Russell was less a man of the 20th century than the last of the eminent, eccentric Victorian rebels...
Harvard w?, its true taking 17 of 27 matches. But at one point the Harvards found themselves down in hours, 8-7, and their own fencers looking like men trying to brash their teeth in (??) Cetrulo, he of the mighty sabre off the bench to poke and (??) a poor Trinity (??) touches to one, whereupon Keller, resembling a surgeon who didn't very much like his patient, cut up a victim five to zip. Thus inspired. Harvard's lesser lights finally quit puffing like fat men chasing a bus and got a little more art in their lunges...
...contrast with Harvard's balanced performance, three players accounted for 57 of St. Anselm's 75 points. Vince Colopietro starred with 22 points but had to accept his coach's consolation when he returned to the bench shortly before half-time: "There's nothing...