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...second period was a defensive stalemate for 17:58 until sophomore attacker Liz Schoyer crept up on Loyola goaltender Dana Hoffman's left side and rifled the ball over her head to tie the game. The Greyhounds broke the 4-0 Crimson run with a score by Betsy Given, but Winters knocked in her second goal of the day to send the game into overtime...
Meanwhile, the Crimson attack was finally finding a way past Hoffman. The tall Loyola netminder proved to be a difficult opponent for Harvard shooters, as she would crouch down low and tempt her opponents to shoot up high...
...cult's grip, they encounter a darker side, even if they do not recognize it. Their charismatic leader preaches that they are surrounded by enemies, that nonbelievers are out to crush them and that God commands vengeance. In some sects they are told to commit violent acts, says Hoffman, "because the only way they can hasten redemption or achieve salvation is to eliminate the nonbelievers...
That's a sizable market niche. Says Casey Hoffman, who ran Texas' child-support collection program from 1986 to 1990: "At some point, I realized that the private sector was going to have to come into play." So Hoffman jumped the fence and in 1991 founded Child Support Enforcement; today his firm employs eight full-time investigators on some 3,000 cases. Hoffman's backround as a high public official is unusual; the business runs more to seasoned debt collectors such as Find Dad's Mel Shaw, who will say, straight-faced, of a projected quarry, "I' m his worst...
...several states have now contracted out some of their collection work to private firms. The likelihood is that ever more women may find themselves following in the footsteps of Minnesotan JoAnn Anderson. She filed a child-support claim with the state in 1990; nothing happened. In 1993 she hired Hoffman's firm, which located him within a few weeks. She now receives $1,600 a month. "I don't mind paying their fee," she says. "I am certain Minnesota would never have gotten him to pay anything...