Word: davids
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Much to our surprise and contrary to what we printed in the August 9th issue of The Crimson, George Will has publicly supported the installation of lights at Wrigley Field. David J. Barron, a questionable baseball fan himself but an ardent Will opponent, now longs for the days of hot dogs smothered in mustard and baseball under the sun. He now joins Julio Varela in opposing lights. After all, he got his facts straight...
...team, led by David Latham of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., found evidence of what might be a gigantic planet 20 times as large as Jupiter orbiting a star 550 trillion miles away. The Canadians reported nine stars with possible planets within 588 trillion miles of earth; they calculated that one of them was about the size of Jupiter...
Often the cash vanishes from vaults only to reappear in the wallets of executives, who use it for personal pleasure. After Bell Savings and Loan of San Mateo, Calif., failed in 1985 with losses totaling $495 million, authorities found that Partner David Butler had used corporate funds to buy expensive racing airplanes for his exclusive use. Butler pleaded guilty to two felony counts and is awaiting sentencing. In the ongoing investigation of the failure of Texas-based Vernon Savings and Loan, in which regulators charge that top officials have looted the S and L for their own gain, former Senior...
...crowd agrees that Fleet Streeters, able to weasel their way into anything, are the best practitioners of stake-out journalism. "We don't take no for an answer," says David Wright, an Englishman who is the Enquirer's current ace reporter. Wright once posed as a florist's messenger, delivering roses to Megan Marshack, the staffer who had been with Nelson Rockefeller when he died and was holed up in her apartment trying to avoid the press. "I nearly had to buy the truck to get the setup right," he recalls. John Blackburn, an American who at one time...
Health-care professionals applaud the feminization of the condom, though they warn it is not 100% effective in preventing either pregnancy or sexual diseases. Declares Dr. David Grimes, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Medicine: "Women's health is much too important to subcontract out to men." Still, cautions Dr. Eric Berger of the American Council on Science and Health in New York City, "if a condom is being touted as something that prevents AIDS transmission, its use alone is not enough...