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...endless leaks are over," he told a news conference. "At long last the day in court is now near." Predicting that "a jury will judge me innocent," Symington said he had no intention of stepping down--even though he jump-started his own political career by urging Governor Evan Mecham to do so, when Mecham was indicted in 1988 (and later acquitted) for concealing a campaign loan...
Arizonans, beaten down by the Evan Mecham and S&L king Charles Keating scandals, may have little patience for leaving Symington in office--even though in a way it seems their prayers were answered. Says Jerry Colangelo, a principal owner of the Phoenix Suns: "No one can argue that the state [isn't] in the best financial shape it has been for years...
...other words, this season just wasn't happening for Harvard. It wasn't until mid-February, halfway through the season, that Harvard coach Ishan Gurdal finally decided on a setter, putting former back-row-specialist and co-captain Abbas Hyderi on the second hit for good. Sophomore Evan Beachy had been the full-time setter, and then Beachy and Hyderi switched off in the 6-2 offense before Hyderi took over full-time...
Other Key Players: Ryan Oliver '98, Jim Rothschild '98, Evan Beachy...
...marriage issue, with mixed results: five states--Georgia, Kansas, Idaho, South Dakota and Utah--have enacted bans, and 13 others have rejected them. Gay activists are leaning on historical precedent to quash other efforts. "In our lifetime it was illegal to marry someone of the 'wrong race,'" says Evan Wolfson, who directs the Marriage Project for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York. "Our opponents talk about marriage like it's been the same for 6,000 years." Count on the religious right's taking the issue to the G.O.P. Convention in San Diego--and trying...