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...regulatory problems. The seven regional Baby Bells accuse AT&T of trying to subvert the 1984 divestiture order by using the McCaw link to surreptitiously re-enter the local phone business. They want the Federal Communications Commission either to force AT&T to dissolve its McCaw alliance, or to lift the ban prohibiting local phone companies from offering long- distance service. Says Richard Brown, vice chairman of Ameritech, the Chicago-based Baby Bell: "AT&T is trying to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again...
...becoming one of the pre-eminent tax lawyers in the country (he advises Ross Perot, who endowed a chair at Georgetown Law in his name) and sharing the tasks of family life. The two had met as undergraduates during her first semester at Cornell when Marty gave a lift to a friend in his old Chevrolet to pick up a date who lived in the dorm room next to Ruth's. The minute Ruth graduated in 1954, they got married at his parents' house...
Greenspan said he had some disturbing encounters. "As Powell's honorary degree was being awarded, I shouted 'Lift the ban, Colin. A couple of marshals... started hitting me in the stomach with an umbrella," he said...
Pink balloons stating "Lift the Ban" were all over the Yard, tied to wrists, chairs and strollers. A few of the faculty and administrators sitting on stage also had balloons...
Some chose stickers and buttons rather than balloons. "In Eliot, people didn't think it was appropriate to bring balloons into the chapel, so [none of the Eliot seniors have] balloons," said Eliot Master Kristine L. Forsgard, wearing a "Lift the Ban" sticker on her sash. "But there's lots of support...