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ACCORDING TO YIDDISH LORE, THE CLASSIC DEFINItion of chutzpah is a man who kills both parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. Inmates in New York City may be offering a modern illustration: some prisoners may be turning guns on themselves in order to file multimillion- dollar lawsuits against the city -- for failing to provide adequate protection in jail. The city's department of investigation says there are currently at least eight such suits filed or pending, seeking damages of up to $8.5 million. Investigators charge that the majority of the suits involve...
Gordon Roddick seems the perfect foil for Anita. With his Scottish burr and occasional stutter, he is steady where she is erratic and quiet where she is brash. London analysts believe he is the financial wizard behind Anita's success. But he is best known in Body Shop lore for a voyage he took a few years into the marriage. The young couple had just sold a struggling restaurant when Gordon announced that he wanted to fulfill a lifelong dream: to ride a horse from Buenos Aires to New York City, an adventure he figured would take about two years...
TELEVISION The Prize is a gusher of oil lore...
William Stanislaus Murphy, Class of 1885, bought himself a place in Harvard fundraising lore when he left a $94,618 bequest in 1916 for "the establishment of one or more scholarships for the collegiate education of any young man or men named 'Murphy' who in the judgement of the faculty should prove deserving of this kind of encouragement...
Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Gregory Nagy's Literature and Arts C class, known in Harvard lore as "Heroes for Zeros," places third this year with 599 students; last year, 651 students signed up for the course...