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...answer to why was it not discussed further is obvious: It didn’t matter, nor should it. Senator Brown’s ability to make nice for the camera bears little on his ability to make policy. However, when the story first came to light, I couldn’t help recall Lisa Edelstein’s character Laurie from the hit TV show The West Wing, who was also trying to pay her way through law school by working as an escort. The point Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator and main writer, was making...
...happens, this scene is also the one that unfolds in the first two chapters of Simon Lelic’s new novel, “A Thousand Cuts.” Lelic has mastered the tropes of the police drama. The book follows an order predictable to any viewer of such programs: exposition followed by introduction of law enforcement officials, whose own battles are then interspersed with testimony. Each witness’s deposition is even separated into a new chapter, much in the same way that “Law and Order” introduces a new witness...
...Bulls grabbed the first point of the afternoon in a sweep of the three doubles matches...
Norton dropped her first set 6-1, but quickly took the lead in the second, 3-0. Unfortunately for Harvard, Norton then suffered a light ankle sprain, which hindered her ability to close out the set. Despite coming within a game of victory at 5-4, she lost the next three games to lose the set, 7-5, effectively giving South Florida its third point...
Despite her team’s loss, No. 84 Cao had something to prove in the No. 1 court against No. 35 Irene Rehberger. In a hard fought match, Cao took the first set 6-3, but lost the second 6-2. In the deciding super tie-break, Cao battled to a 10-5 win to earn the Crimson’s second point of the afternoon...