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While almost all of the classes emphasize technique, which can be as individualistic as this style, Fanger says that "the basis of the work here is to expand what dance is." She adds, "We teach every class as if people were going on to the stage. The bias is prepared towards public performance...
...Eliot House resident says he believes an anti-American bias among the judicial panel, of which the majority hails from the Eastern bloc, and his relative youth cost him a higher finish...
...autopsy established that Bias had a large, strong heart and was in excellent shape. His mucous membranes were clear, indicating that he was probably not a veteran snorter of cocaine. Dr. Smialek reported that Bias had no more than "an average level of sensitivity" to the drug and avoided attributing the 6.5 mg-per-liter concentration of cocaine in the athlete's bloodstream to an "overdose." "This particular concentration might not kill another individual," the medical examiner said. "On the other hand, another individual could die at a lower level...
While doctors pondered how cocaine killed Bias, Maryland authorities were investigating how he obtained the drug. At week's end they were interested in questioning Brian Tribble, an acquaintance who lives well and drives a Mercedes. Reports circulated that Tribble was seen with Bias in various places around Washington in the early morning before the athlete's death and accompanied him back to his dormitory at 5 a.m., about an hour before he was stricken. Arthur Marshall, state's attorney for Prince Georges County, vowed to develop a manslaughter case if the dealer who sold the fatal cocaine...
...Bias' death turned the spotlight on the status of athletes at the University of Maryland. Bias had compiled a dismal academic record at the school, particularly in the past year, and was still 21 credits short of graduating, instead of nine, as he recently claimed. The university and Basketball Coach "Lefty" Driesell quickly found themselves the targets of charges that athletes, particularly black athletes, are routinely exploited at big-time sports schools. Wendy Whittemore, academic counselor to the basketball team, took the occasion to resign, saying that she thought education was not a top priority for Coach Driesell. Marshall claimed...