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Vanessa, we learn, has more in mind than just winning PS. It seems the boy's rakish father, a handsome, drunken gold digger who's quite the ladies' man, had an affair with Vanessa years ago. By getting his son, she hopes to lure him back. But Logan, hardly the fatherly type, breezes into town only long enough to tie one on and perhaps sign a new set of papers, beseeched by both sisters for sole guardianship rights...
...archeologist himself. Benton explains that he wants to discourage future relic-hunters from destroying archeological information "We're not going to reward anyone who goes out and finds a treasure of the United States and digs it up himself," he says. "What we're talking about is a crude digger who has no respect: the net result is he probably destroys more than he saves," Benton adds...
...fear that immoderate success on the playing fields might tarnish the Harvard image. Sports, after all, play a major role in establishing a school's public image. Mention the University of North Carolina and Dean Smith is bound to enter the conversation. Notre Dame is a football team and Digger Phelps...
...accuse the author of delivering one. His book is very light on endearing anecdotes, and it is unlikely to match in sweep and detail the first volume, to be published next fall, of a mammoth Johnson trilogy by Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert Caro. But Dugger is a digger-wide-ranging, thorough, judicious. He deserves an award for footnotes alone (69 pages of them, in tiny, tiny type). He has the goods...
Leading up to the Final Four in New Orleans, the National Collegiate Athletic Association news had been dominated by the candor of Notre Dame Coach Digger Phelps-"revelation" was the word used in the dispatches, but it was hardly that. He merely said that the going rate for a player on the black market, usually situated in a black neighborhood, was $10,000 per year of his college career. Phelps knew coaches who were buying, and though he named no names, the name for men who make their living cruising the ghettos and romancing children is well known. A seamier...