Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girls are walking by in bikinis when he could be in Cambridge, waiting in nine inches of snow and slush for a shuttle bus ride? Who wants to see Division I football in his own backyard when he could be at Harvard watching the national championship chess team quash lesser rivals? Who wants to go to a school whose most famous alumnus is Herbert Hoover...
...call, Alice Bond told reporters that her charges were false, even though she had also named the alleged coke supplier and a limousine driver she claimed had sometimes delivered the drug to her husband. The three police officers who had taken the statements from her were then transferred to lesser duties without explanation. That led U.S. Attorney Robert Barr, a former chairman of the Cobb County G.O.P. organization, to launch an obstruction-of- justice probe...
Those protections do not extend to other crimes. Indeed, Litman first made a name for himself in 1977 by getting a conviction on the lesser charge of manslaughter for Richard Herrin, a Yale graduate who killed his girlfriend Bonnie Garland with a hammer. "It was suggested," says her father Paul bitterly, "that she was a manipulative, rich, spoiled person who didn't treat this lovely man who murdered her nicely." Garland, a New York attorney, is working for the spread of legislation that gives victims the right to a voice at bail hearings and with the prosecution before a plea...
...United States Basketball League was formed several years ago as a summer professional league to showcase lesser known players, most right out of college. A number of USBL players have gone on to bigger and better things in the Continental Basketball League and even...
Filling out the picture will be some lesser-known field agents who helped create the private network that kept the contras fighting despite the official cutoff. Among them: Robert Owen, who as North's roving envoy in Central America allegedly arranged weapons shipments, and Contra Leader Adolfo Calero, who will be asked about what help the rebels actually received...