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...Sofaer's decision to have the jury announce its interim findings before reaching a final verdict bothered some. They felt it would encourage others to seek the partial vindication that might be claimed from even an unsuccessful suit. "Sharon got the jury saying TIME lied about him," said Robert Comstock, editor of New Jersey's Bergen County Record. "I think there are other officials who would like to have a jury say that too." To Eugene Roberts, executive editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, "it was clearly a political suit." The trend toward such suits, he said, amounts to "open season...
...were faced with a huge choice of people, courses, activities and interests but not of sports. Excepting the field hockey team which played on the Quad, we had no possibilities of convenient sports. The two tennis courts behind Moors were covered by Comstock and the swimming pool was dreary and over-chlorinated. We never went near it after passing the required swimming test freshman week. The Harvard facilities were never open to women. Most of us didn't actively miss sports but we all would have benefited from the camaraderie of some group exercise as we tended to be solitary...
Smith's Ada Comstock Scholars give more than they take...
What will make a college degree possible for Palano is Smith's eight-year-old Ada Comstock Program for women over 22. Named for a former dean (class of '97) who later became president of Radcliffe, the program is both generous and uncompromising: there is no time limit for earning a degree and, for needier students, there is financial help; but the "Adas" (their campus nickname) must attend the same classes as regular four-year students, which means no snap courses and no credits for "life experience," a popular trend in adult education...
...fire started at 11:35 a.m. when workers from the Comstock and Manzi contracting firm accidentally cut into a power line at an electrical substation which supplies power to the Kendall Square subway stop, a company official said...