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Black people, more than any other American group, were responsible for broadening the interpretation of the Constitution to protect individual rights, Harvard Law Professor Derrick A. Bell said Tuesday at the Cambridge Public Library...
Professor Derrick A. Bell said he would protest the faculty's vote to deny tenure to Assistant Professor Clare Dalton and the decision by President Bok to reject the tenure appointment of Visiting Professor David Trubek...
Syracuse has a good team without many weaknesses. Big men Rony Seikaly and Derrick Coleman thrived on posting up undersized (Villanova, Georgetown) or slow (St. John's, Providence) Big East counterparts. But Carolina is too strong in the middle to be exploited. Unless the Orange guards shine, Syracuse stands little chance...
...real strength of the Southeast lies in second- and third-seeded Alabama (26-4) and Illinois (23-7). Both have senior backcourt players who shoot well--often from three--in their triple-guard offenses. The guards for both teams can open up the middle for their big men, Derrick McKey and Ken Norman...
When Eugene O'Neill got a toothache he turned to Saxe Commins, a dentist known for his light touch. But the playwright's ailing tooth was so stubborn, O'Neill noted, that the dentist "had almost to call in the derrick squad." Nevertheless, extractions proved to be the basis of their relationship for the next 30 years. After Commins left dentistry for publishing, including a quarter-century at Random House, he gently but forcefully drew from O'Neill some of his greatest plays. "Love and Admiration and Respect" is a record in letters and commentary of a remarkably creative friendship...