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Jackson, who was 5-for-5 from the field and 4-for-4 from the foul line in the final quarter, scored 14 of Indiana's final 17 points to easily surpass his previous season-high...
Riley went 9-for-12 from the field, using her 6-foot-5 frame to convert lob passes and tip-ins into easy baskets over the smaller Lady Raiders (26-5). She missed all but one minute of the first half because of early foul trouble...
...backers over who is bankrolling her case -- and where all the public donations have gone. Via mail and website, the Paula Jones Legal Fund raised upwards of $100,000 for what it calls "litigation expenses." But the Rutherford Institute, the nonprofit group that pays Jones? legal bills, has cried foul. ?We have not received any money from the Paula Jones Legal Fund,? said spokeswoman Nisha Mohammed...
...about Monica Lewinsky. There is no sexual harassment alleged. No one got hurt, and Lewinsky may even have almost gotten a job out of it. The economy is strong, and the Iraq crisis has, for the moment, subsided. The President is doing a decent enough job. No harm, no foul...
...cases of Nykesha Sales, Mo Vaughn and Bill Clinton of course merit different interpretations of "no harm, no foul." In the instance of Sales' new record, her coach may have been right that no harm was done and a greater good accomplished. The jury (figuratively for Vaughn and literally for the President) is still out on the other two. I don't know what the antithetical proverb to "no harm, no foul" is, or even whether one exists. In these cases, maybe the closest we can come is "I don't know whether to laugh or cry at once...