Word: connor
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...diving team dominated in separate events against Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth this weekend without its head coach, Stephanie Wriede Morawski, who gave birth to a baby girl on Friday. Assistant coach Rebecca Mitchell assumed the coaching reins and adapted quite nicely, according to junior freestyler Bridget O’Connor. “She gave great speeches,” said O’Connor, who finished second yesterday to freshman teammate Sophie Morgan in the 200-yard freestyle against Cornell. “She was very motivational.” Morawski will return to the team for Friday?...
...Weisenthal coming in second. Three other Harvard entries won multiple events as well. The first event of the meet, the 200-yard medley relay, produced two such double winners. The Harvard ‘A’ squad, composed of juniors Lindsay Hart, Jaclyn Pangilinan, Bridget O’Connor, and Amanda Slaight, took first in the event. The ‘B’ team was not far behind in second, with freshmen Natalia Festa, Sophie Morgan, Vanda Gyuris, and junior Meaghan Colling. From Team ‘A’, both O’Connor and Slaight went...
This bluff andvigorous Ford film, based on the Edwin O'Connor roman clef about four-time Boston Mayor James Curley, winks at the chicanery involved in getting into office and staying there. Spencer Tracy, right, is Frank Skeffington, on his final run for a job he believes is his by divine right. Doing favors, making deals, smiting enemiesto Frank, that's just politics. Has anything changed in 50 years? The big-city machine the film elegizes may be gone, but the malady lingers...
...majority opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor suggested affirmative action was an issue that should be revisited in 25 years. In fact, the debate has never gone away. Two conservative advocacy groups, the Center for Equal Opportunity and the Center for Individual Rights, have contacted dozens of colleges and other groups since the decision, questioning the fairness of race-exclusive programs and threatening to file complaints or lawsuits if non-minorities weren't allowed into such programs. Earlier this year, the Justice Department forced Southern Illinois University to allow non-minorities and men access to graduate fellowships originally created...
With Sandra Day O'Connor retired and his colleagues evenly divided, centrist Kennedy is the likely swing vote in tight cases. He began to play the role last term--with characteristic moderation. He sided with conservatives to limit the reach of the Clean Water Act but voted with the liberals to declare unconstitutional the Bush Administration plan to try alleged terrorists before military tribunals...