Word: john
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...seems that someone poured the potent herbicide Velpar in a circle around the tree early this year, committing a "malicious act against an innocent creature," said city forester John Giedraitis. When the tree shed beads of sap, he said, "it's weeping. This tree is under a tremendous amount of stress." Velpar maker Du Pont has put up a $10,000 reward for the capture of the tree's poisoner. Says a poster at the tree: HANG HIM FROM THE HIGHEST LIMB...
Under orders from the Ohio Supreme Court, Nadel reluctantly made public the 225-page investigative report to Giamatti prepared by John Dowd, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney. Dowd's case is somewhat weakened because it depends heavily on the testimony of Ron Peters and Paul Janszen, two convicted felons. But Dowd insisted that their stories were corroborated by other witnesses, by tape recordings, by records of Rose's telephone calls and, most important, by betting sheets that a retired FBI expert judged to be in Rose's handwriting. Rose said he could not identify them...
...Howard Shaffer of Harvard's Center for Addiction Studies figures that the proportion of American adults who bet at least occasionally has risen from 60% two decades ago to 80% now; other estimates range up to 88%. Nor is betting confined to adults: Henry Lesieur, a sociologist at St. John's University in New York City, found in a 1987 study that 86% of New Jersey high school students had gambled within the previous year and 32% gambled at least once a week, mostly on sports events. "At first I didn't believe the rates," says Lesieur. "We double-checked...
...were Robin Hood, then Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 would be Little John. Of course, Bok does not go around robbing rich people (unless you count fund-raising), and Steiner is more likely to stun opponents with a deft thrust of the law than the blow of a quarter staff...
Down the hall from Steiner's office in Mass Hall is that of Vice President for Community and Government Affairs John Shattuck, whose job it is to represent Harvard before the Real World...