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Blake, and his brother Thomas Blake ’98, who like the younger James received All-American honors while at Harvard, opened the WTT regular season match playing doubles against the Lasers’ Rick Leach and Rik De Voest. James barely saw the ball early in the set, and poor net play by Thomas saw the brothers fall behind the Lasers...
...quickly and efficiently. Another 15% or less completely freak out--weeping, screaming or otherwise hindering the evacuation. That kind of hysteria is usually isolated and quickly snuffed out by the crowd. The vast majority of people do very little. They are "stunned and bewildered," as British psychologist John Leach put it in a 2004 article published in Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine...
...Victor Thompson, stepped down soon after it came to light that a Tulsa bank he had headed had been the target of an investigation for securities violations. No criminal charges resulted from the investigation. Early on, the SFC earned a reputation for inefficiency and waste. Says Iowa Congressman James Leach, a Republican: "These are the only guys in the world who make the Pentagon look streamlined...
Denise Fairchild was artificially inseminated in 1997. She raised her son with her lesbian partner Therese Leach until the couple split in 2001. Now Fairchild wants to deny her former partner visitation rights, and she's citing Ohio's new constitutional ban on gay marriage. Since they were never legally married under Ohio law, Fairchild claims, Leach does not have the rights of a former spouse. Leach's attorney argues that the amendment doesn't apply to parent-child relationships. "I'm using a piece of legislation that will deny me rights later in life," Fairchild says. "But before...
...Under Bush, outsourcing should continue to fatten American corporate profits, but it also threatens to leach millions of jobs away from the U.S. service sector. The challenge for Bush is to ensure that American workers receive the higher education and vocational training they need, so that it's still worth paying them a premium. If he fails to do so, Asia will benefit...