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...There are no real internal problems for me to contend with on the field hockey team," she says. "Like most of the other women's teams in the College, the players are too concerned with team effort and overall performance to waste time worrying about individual showing...
Several similar structures in Scotland have more accurate alignments, Gingerich said. But he stressed that even these seemingly more sophisticated structures may not be so valuable as some scientists contend. The Scottish rings "would be truly wonderful if the whole area were not dotted with stones," he said...
Besides logistical problems, officials in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington had to contend with lawsuits brought by civil libertarians, abortion advocates and atheists, including Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who won the Supreme Court ruling in 1963 that banned prayer from public schools. Opponents argued that public spending on the platforms constructed for the Pope's Masses, or even the use of public land, would violate the Constitution's separation of church and state. Complained Boston Plaintiff Bill Baird: "What do you think would happen if the Ayatullah Khomeini were coming to Boston Common to conduct a Muslim service...
...other problem with condos, the one most often cited by its critics, is that many tenants forced from their homes by condominium conversion cannot afford to buy the new units. Instead, critics contend, they are forced onto public housing rolls or they have no recourse but to leave Cambridge in search of more inexpensive quarters. "The elderly are the ones that suffer the most," city councilor Alfred E. Vellucci says...
Nonetheless, the issue of job security continues to preoccupy the police. While the number of uniformed policemen remains at 41, the administration continues to hire more watchmen and student security guards, who the police contend are taking over their duties and reducing potential officer hirings...