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This make-shift line-up went into the water 30 minutes before starting time, having to place first or second to qualify for the finals. Dead last at the halfway point, the crew came on to take second. Brooks remembers seeing a TV replay of the race where "Howard Cosell was calling us dead, and then he went absolutely crazy...
...Crimson, now halfway through their season, have the most difficult part of their schedule remaining, starting with their next game against Boston University...
...When the facts are halfway uncertain, the jury will decide the case in terms of what they think is just -which is what they should do," says Hans Zeisel, professor emeritus of law and sociology at the University of Chicago and co-author of The American Jury (1966). Adds Robert Hanley, a senior partner in the Chicago firm of Jenner & Block: "Jurors are great at picking out the gut issue and deciding on that. They can tell whether a chairman of the board is lying or not, and that's what it comes down...
...uses a preternatural 78-in. reach to keep trouble at bay until he can lower the boom. Each man had earned a welterweight (141 to 147 Ibs.) championship belt: Leonard from the World Boxing Council (WBC), Hearns from the World Boxing Association (WBA). So when it was over, halfway through the 14th round at the special 25,000-seat arena constructed on the grounds of Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas, the man who had it all had one thing more: Sugar Ray Leonard became the undisputed, unified welterweight champion of the world. He also took home a record...
Joan Flechtner, assistant to the masters at Leverett House, was representative of officials at Houses with low attrition rates. She ran out of space about halfway through sophomore assignments, but, by adding about 20 beds and converting suites from triples to quads "as comfortably as possible," she said she was able to accommodate sophomores without affecting juniors and seniors...