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Half an hour later, a slew of matches concluded which gave the Crimson the win. Choo finished off DeSilva 6-4, 6-4 at No. 3, and Lee put the nail in the coffin for Harvard with a 6-0, 7-5 victory over Amad Wakalkar at No. 4 singles. Nguyen and Turner finished moments later...
...trial lawyer who defended President Nixon during the Watergate impeachment proceedings; in Westwood, Mass. In 1954 St. Clair found renown as chief assistant to Joseph Welch, counsel for the U.S. Army during Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist investigation. During his storied career, St. Clair defended Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin, tried for encouraging draft evasion (the charges were later dropped), and represented the Boston School Committee in its losing struggle against mandatory busing...
...this point, the Crimson was up 57-45 with three minutes left and looking to put the nail in the coffin...
...confirmation, but the extended three-day hearing facilitated a vociferous opposition to his nomination, both in and outside the hearing room. Tensions rose as lobbyists like NARAL's Kate Michelman took the stand Thursday to rail against Ashcroft, painting his confirmation as the proverbial nail in the coffin of women's reproductive rights...
Last week, before the state supreme court's thunderclap ruling, it was difficult if not impossible to find a lawmaker on Capitol Hill who expected Gore to survive. "The coffin was on the ground, and the dirt was being poured on top of it," says a top Senate Democratic aide. Publicly the lawmakers still supported the Vice President, albeit in a mechanical and slightly impatient way. Privately they prepared for life with President Bush...