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...been for alcohol, Chappaquiddick almost surely would never have happened: Ted Kennedy, that is, would not have driven off the Dike Bridge on Martha's Vineyard in the middle of one night in the summer of 1969, drowning a young campaign worker named Mary Jo Kopechne...
...police handling of the case brings to mind the botched investigation of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, when the Senator did not notify the police until 10 hours later that he had driven off the bridge. The first reports about the case were inaccurate, yet the police did not provide an accurate one. By the end of the week, police still had not questioned any of the Kennedys. Nor did they interrogate bartenders, parking-lot attendants or other potential witnesses until a week after the alleged crime. They delayed naming a suspect until Friday because, they said...
While junior goalie Sarah Leary was recording her first shutout of the season, her Crimson teammates were having little trouble tallying goals. Nine Harvard players in all found the back of the net. Senior attacker Tenley Stephenson had two goals and an assist, and freshman linemate Jo Ann Alissi had three scores and two assists. Senior tri-captain Ceci Kurzman also netted a hat trick...
...like it. It mellows us out," says Betty-Jo Matzinger, a graduate student at the Education School. Her friend, Naomi Dogan, also a graduate student at the Ed School, agrees. "It helps me with my breathing and working out the physical kinks I get from mental crunching," she says. "It is a great one-hour escape from the chaos of life...
...mastectomy in order to prevent breast cancer smacks of wild paranoia. But for Maria Burkhardt of Covington, La., the unthinkable slowly became the inevitable. Twenty years ago, an aunt was stricken with the disease. Her mother died from it a decade later. In 1986 Maria's younger sister Jo Ann began fighting for her life. Next her older sister Rose developed an aggressive tumor. Maria consulted a doctor and was told she was "a ticking time bomb." Ominously, her tissues were judged too dense for mammograms to scan reliably...