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...brawl in front of the Harvard Square Sports Club on JFK St. last July provoked the local furor over the bars. According to police reports, the fight erupted among patrons outside the sports bar on July 27, 10 minutes before the 2 a.m. closing time. After several residents complained of the noise and violence from the brawl, the police arrived, broke up the mob and arrested three people...
...they allow themselves to become part of the story they are covering. Totenberg is no stranger to scoops or controversy. Until the Thomas hearings, she was probably best known for her 1987 disclosure that Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg smoked marijuana while a law professor at Harvard. The subsequent furor compelled Ginsburg to withdraw his candidacy. A Boston University dropout, Totenberg graduated from the women's page of the Boston Record-American to the now defunct National Observer. She was fired from the Observer after writing a story that contained quotes she lifted from the Washington Post. Since joining...
...furor began when the General Accounting Office revealed that in one year alone, members of Congress bounced 8,331 checks -- 581 for $1,000 or more -- giving themselves, in effect, interest-free loans. Millionaire lawmakers, said investigators, were among the worst offenders, but the habit was shared by Foley, majority leader Richard Gephardt and minority whip Newt Gingrich, which may help explain the lack of enthusiasm for an investigation among any but the most novice Congressmen. "I wrote one check for insufficient funds," said Gingrich, "and deposited funds to cover it within 48 hours." Period...
...sake, who's running the store?" Freshman Republican James Nussle was back in Iowa eating at a local Pizza Hut with his family when a nearby diner asked if he planned to pay by check. Democrat Pat Schroeder, who insists that she has not bounced any checks, says the furor "captures the brick-through-the-window political mood. It shows you how angry people are with the incumbents." She was talking to her father on the telephone at the end of the week, and even he asked if she had been writing rubber checks. "No, Daddy, I didn...
...With so much at stake, the industry has understandably embraced the new thinking on dioxin. A furor erupted in the scientific community last winter when a trade association tried to overstate the conclusions of a research meeting at which some evidence favorable to dioxin was presented. Many of the participants did not realize that the conference had been underwritten in part with industry funds. "I agree that there is a lot of new science about dioxin," says Ellen Silbergeld, a toxicologist at the University of Maryland who attended the meeting. "But I don't agree over how that new knowledge...