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...first-round byes, will square-off in the second round. Jennifer Santrock, the nation's ninth-ranked singles player, and Jean Marie Sterling will lead the way for the Mustangs. SMU is also the owner of the nation's number-one ranked doubles team of Clare Evert and Tammy Christensen...
...student at Syracuse University in 1965, had plagiarized large portions of a law-review article for a course assignment. The story somehow got to CBS, which aired it, and it was true. Syracuse is investigating whether a faculty member violated confidentiality by talking about that incident. Craig Christensen, former dean of the law school, told Biden in a June 11 letter that his file had been locked in a safe. But a source who attended a Sept. 4 dinner with Christensen told TIME that the former dean discussed Biden's student problems with his guests and said nothing about confidentiality...
...Salt Lake City had been thrown into a panic by the seemingly random nature of the bombings, and the Mormon Church had been rocked to its foundations by Hofmann's faked documents. Hofmann's most notorious forgery had been the so-called White Salamander letter, which he sold to Christensen and Gary Sheets in 1984 for $40,000. It alleged that Church Founder Joseph Smith had been led to the Mormon scriptures not by an angel, as Smith had maintained, but by a white salamander, a familiar icon of superstitious folk magic and divining. The letter was purportedly written...
...Altogether, Hofmann sold 48 documents, some of them bogus, to the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. At the time of the murders, Hofmann and Christensen were negotiating for Hofmann's greatest "find": a collection of documents once purportedly owned by Dr. William McLellin, an early church apostle who later turned apostate. McLellin's papers supposedly contained embarrassing stories about Smith...
Hofmann bargained with church members to obtain the McLellin collection for the church for $185,000, and he had already received $150,000 for the documents from another investor. But he could not deliver: the "discovery" was the product of Hofmann's fertile and lucrative imagination. Christensen may have begun to suspect this; two hours before he was to inspect the documents, he was killed. Gary Sheets, according to prosecutors, was targeted for murder as a diversion...