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...slight, er, problem has cropped up at the large (68 partners) law firm of Gage & Griswell; the Management Oversight Committee wonders if maybe McCormack A. ("Mack") Malloy might not be able to help them solve it. Seems that Bert Kamin, like his friend Mack a partner at Gage & Griswell, has disappeared, and so has about $5.6 million. The money was lifted from an account the firm had assembled to settle insurance claims against the fatal crash of a TransNational Air plane in 1985. Since TN is by far the firm's biggest and most lucrative account, the missing money could...
...like to watch don't you," the ads for Sliver ask, breathlessly leaving out all the proper punctuation marks, thereby implying that other, more significant proprieties may have been violated in the movie itself. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to answer, "Well . . . er...
...Americans' lives more than any other legislation since the Social Security Act of 1935, will be unveiled by Bill Clinton with a flourish of trumpets and roll of drums around May 1. Hold it: about 10 days later. On third thought, let's say the week of May 17. Er . . . would you believe mid-June...
...Mueller, Hinteragger (4). BP: None. Loe: MIT 10. Harvard 11. 2B: Hill. 2B: None. HR: None. SB: Glardi, Hill, Brissetta (2), Madden, Zerate, CB: Gass. MIT IP H R ER SS SO Ritter, L 4.2 7 4 2 1 5 Loutach 1.2 2 4 4 1 1 Kyle 0.2 1 0 0 2 1 Brunelli 1 1 1 0 0 2 HARVARD IP H R ER SS SO Devidson 4 4 0 0 2 9 Poncy, W (2.2) 4 3 1 1 0 5 Vanach...
...intelligent people becoming exercised over the possibility of plagiarism serves as a reminder that the subject is of more than academic concern. The theft of ideas or expressions degrades the currency of information exchanges. True wit, after all, is Nature to advantage dressed; what oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed (Pope, Essay on Criticism...