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...chalk are on the table." His coverage past 2 a.m. was beyond eerie, as a clearly unhinged man attempted to fill airtime with histrionic Shatnerian pauses and complex explanations of simple arithmetic. When Dan finally, and awkwardly, announced a winner, I, like many others, cursed our country's fate and went...
...days when, in a close and corrupt election, Richard Nixon gracefully conceded the White House to John F. Kennedy's '40 mistresses, Jackie O.'s pillbox hats and J. Edgar Hoover's wiretaps. Instead, we have both campaigns girding themselves up for scorched-earth strategies, in which the fate of the presidency will be decided by poorly punched ballots, recount deadlines and judicial fiat...
Harvard started out the season playing well and adjusting to the new lineups, which included Long and freshman point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman. The Crimson won its first three games and lost a few more until fate once again nailed Dan Clemente in the face...
Last Friday morning, rumors that Lloyd's had won the trial swirled through the corridors of England's Royal Courts of Justice long before the dissident Names trooped in to learn their fate. Despite Lloyd's legal army, the Names believed their side had clearly demonstrated fraud at Lloyd's the institution, as opposed to the syndicates. In court it also emerged that many Names had been ill-served by negligent syndicates. But they failed to prove to the satisfaction of the judge that Lloyd's itself had committed fraud. More specifically the judge rejected the allegation that Lloyd...
...process so flawed that Secretary Donna Shalala did not protest when Congress suspended its ability to collect funds from states that did not meet federal eligibility requirements. State foster-care systems are in such poor shape that case files are still hard copy-bound. Without modern databases, tracking the fate of children remains a maddening paper chase. "These systems should be a national scandal," says Marcia Robinson Lowry, executive director of Children's Rights Inc. "In virtually every state, there is no accountability." Says Don Keenan, an Atlanta lawyer who has sued Georgia posthumously on behalf of children who died...