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...maybe even more importantly, the Crimson has to play a smart game and not take so many retaliation penalties, which crimp its offense...
Adding injury to insult, two key players, senior starting forward Katie Phillips and freshmen center Allyson Keith, did not play because of injury. This left the Crimson with only nine healthy bodies, and the lack of depth put a crimp in the team's newly installed full court press (only 13 steals versus 20 for William and Mary) and fast break...
...constitutional immunity, some privilege against self-incrimination or free speech or freedom of association," says Jesse Choper, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. "As a general proposition, a court can subpoena records that contain reference to criminal conduct." Such legalistic caveats cannot fail to crimp amateur Samuel Pepyses, who scribble in faith that their scribblings will remain private...
...fewer can drink and drive. That is not the issue. The law was changed for Massachusetts as a whole, not for the 200,000 college students in the Boston area. If highway fatalities drop by any appreciable amount in the next few years, it will be worth putting a crimp in some college students' social habits...
...cellular-phone controversy could put a crimp in the industry's plans for growth. Motorola wants to build more powerful phones that can bounce their signals off low-flying satellites. Apple and AT&T plan to connect pocket phones, laptop computers and electronic notepads through a "wireless world" of microwaves. But before consumers buy into a pervasive network of cellular devices, they might well demand some answers about the one that is already in place...