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...five losses make clear, it hasn't been all smooth sailing for the Crimson. The team has had chronic difficulties curiously similar to those of the men's team: great passing and playmaking, but weak or not enough shooting. (Maybe the similarities come from the two coaches' watching each other on opposing teams in the late 1950s, when men's coach Billy Cleary played varsity at Harvard, and Dooley played for B.U.: more on that in another column...
...Clarendon Court that two murder attempts were supposedly made. The prosecution alleges that in December of 1979 and again in December of 1980, Von Bülow gave his wife, who suffered from chronic low blood sugar, shots of insulin, the hormone that helps metabolize sugar. Excess insulin would have dropped her blood sugar dangerously low. Sunny was hospitalized for a few days the first time and permanently the second; she is now in the Harkness Pavilion at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. The seed of scandal was planted when Sunny's maid of 23 years, Maria Schrallhammer...
Harvard opened the second half by outscoring the Eagles, 17-6, with junior Frenesa Hall netting eight of her team high 11 points. At that time, Harvard's offense was performing at a level which it had not displayed all year. But the cagers' chronic inconsistency--largely responsible for their abysmal season record--plagued them in the late going. A five-minute Crimson scoring drought allowed B.C. to tie the game at 36 with 42 remaining...
That reduction has many local merchants worried that potential customers and employees will choose to avoid the Square, already known for its chronic traffic congestion. What makes the situation worse, representatives of the Harvard Square Businessman's Association say, is that Harvard, which has so far declined to add more parking to the University Place plans, also controls most of the other potential sites in the Square for additional parking...
...Limann was unable to cope with the country's chronic economic problems, aggravated by world inflation, rising fuel prices and overspending by previous regimes. On seizing power last week, Rawlings vowed to wage a "holy war" against corruption. Judged by his record, it is likely to be a bloody...