Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things, their "high ethical standards" and what appeared to them a tremendous circumstantial case. "When I would suggest they should perhaps be preparing their witnesses very carefully, they would say, 'We don't want to be telling witnesses what to say,' " he recalls. "They were playing cricket in an alley fight." Cochran agrees: "See, they had convinced themselves they had this slam-dunk case. They really believed that. But every day things would go wrong for them...
...Returnees: Karen Goetze '97, Jenny Martin '97, Cricket Sheppard-Sawyer...
...women don't have many question marks. Goetze, now a junior, finished first in last year's Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangle, leading the Crimson to its first victory in that meet since 1986. There's also sophomore Margaret Angell and juniors Martin, Cricket Sheppard-Sawyer and Jessica Mikszewski, all of whom finished...
Sheed too knows how to deflect fear with badinage. His denial of denial is especially inventive, and the account of his English boyhood is high spirited, considering that he was permanently hobbled by polio and had to trade in his cricket gear for braces and crutches. Yet catching an early bad break had an unexpected upside. "The period when I might have been learning to adjust to the word [handicapped]," Sheed writes, "was so packed with small accomplishments that it was impossible not to feel like one of the world's winners ever afterwards...
...their ambitions, Leeson and his wife Lisa never really seemed to fit into the affluent, neo-colonial life-style of Singapore-nor into the city's multiethnic society. Barings paid Leeson's dues for the Cricket Club, an old establishment institution for British expatriates in Singapore, but he rarely went there. The Leesons' three-bedroom apartment was part of a low-rise building on neatly manicured grounds in one of Singapore's fashionable neighborhoods, where Tamil and Malay workers come in every morning to mow the lawns, wash the cars and sweep the grounds. But the Leesons took their apartment...