Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials dished out severalmatching minors to calm things down as play got a little sloppy and tempers flared in the last part of the second, and the third started the same way, when Terrier Bill Cotter and Badger Tom Ulseth drew off-setting sentences...
Scott Turow is moving on. He's got one term left at the Law School and after that, the real world: he has signed a four-year contract as a prosecutor with the United States Attorney's office in Chicago, where he worked last summer. In the meantime, he spends three to four days a week in a clinical program, which includes a day in court. Because of his plans for going into trial law after graduating, Turow's participation in the clinical program will form some of the most important lessons the Law School can teach...
...response is that I think there's poetic truth in One L"--not bad, for a book Turow himself deems too flat and stereotyped to call a novel. "People claim not be as conscious of grades, not to feel those pressures. My own sense is that I really got to the genie of Harvard Law School. The genius. The germ...
...about listening to vacation plans which combine jet travel, Bermuda, suntan lotion and volleyballs when you know you're just trundling back to suburbia next week. Ever since my parents decided we couldn't afford the psychic toll of another family vacation (the fighting in the back seat finally got to them). I have known, with a sense of doom approximating the feeling of a Christian Scientist with appendicitis, that I will not be embarking on a spree in the Netherlands Antilles, but on a hopeless quest to entertain myself in a deserted suburban wasteland...
...popcorn kernels and await the closing credits. One vacation I spent four nights in a row watching Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers, doubles features. Looking back on it now, I can't see how I survived, because the titles came and went, but those mindless plots stayed the same. It got so by the third night I could predict exactly when the big dance number would come. I would claim the gift of prophecy, but I might just have been watching reruns...