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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simple majority of senators have pledgedtheir backing, and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis haspromised to sign it if it reaches his desk. Inaddition, the bill has garnered endorsements fromorganizations bearing such political punch as theBoston Bar Association, the Massachusetts Leagueof Women Voters and the state chapter of theNational Organization of Women...
...Students and the Civil Liberties Union at Harvard (CLUH) have arranged to bring 11 busloads of students to the march, scheduled to take place as the Supreme Court prepares to hear three key abortion rights cases in the next two months, said Ellen Zucker, vice president of the Boston chapter of the National Organization of Women...
...Sigma Alpha Epsilon convention in Cincinnati last summer, Rothschild created such a vulgar scene complaining to the hotel desk that his fraternity brothers decided to check into his background. They learned that another guy named Rothschild had pulled off some funny business at the SAE chapter in Berkeley years before. After they demanded that he prove his identity, Maurice skipped town. He showed up in Bronxville, N.Y., to pick up his belongings from a rented room and has not been sighted since...
...good way to catch a reader's attention is to start off with a bang. This book does so. Chapter 1, first sentence: "The most perilous work in America is the harvest by hand of sugarcane in South Florida." Holy mackerel, stop the presses! A lot of coal miners will certainly be relieved to learn this, not to mention scads of military test pilots. And just how perilous is this work, which is principally performed by laborers brought in from the Caribbean? An answer is tucked in at the end of a paragraph 245 pages later...
...body of the book, the story of a season of discontent, is where Golenbock excels. There are a few flaws, however: he does dwell unnecessarily on Valvano's coaching deficiencies, which are numerous but hardly immoral; and he also inserts a three-page chapter devoted solely to relaying rumors that Bias' died from smoking a crack-laced marijuana cigarette, not from snorting cocaine. Interesting, but irrelevant and unsubstantiated...