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What happened during the halftime break nobody knows, but when the game reconvened it was an entirely different Crimson team that took the floor. After a 20-minute delay, a malfunctioning scoreboard and time clock replaced by a manual chalkboard and little red signs to signal fouls and timeouts, imbuing the game with a nostalgic, high-school atmosphere, the second half and the Friar dominance started...
...Atlanta) have in recent years enacted relatively stringent fire codes. But nearly all, including Las Vegas, have grandfather clauses that exempt existing buildings or require only minor improvements. Miami Beach, for example, adopted a tough code in 1976 but only requires its existing hotels to install, among other measures, manual fire alarms and emergency doors. A team of Miami Beach fire officials is going to Las Vegas to see what lessons the MGM Grand Hotel case holds for their city. Admits Assistant Fire Chief Braniard Dorris: "The potential [for a similar fire in Miami Beach] is there...
Nolo was founded in 1971 in a brown shingled house in Berkeley. Two Berkeley Law School graduates, Ralph Warner and Charles Sherman, emotionally and financially drained after three years as poverty lawyers, teamed up on a manual designed to take advantage of California's simplified divorce procedures. The result was How to Do Your Own Divorce in California, which has since sold 300,000 copies and may have saved its readers as much as $80 million in legal fees. Another big seller is California Tenants' Handbook (85,000 copies), which drew this letter from a disgruntled landlord...
...book and had him convicted of criminal contempt for the unlawful practice of law. Dacey ultimately vindicated himself and his book on appeal to the state's highest court (his lawyers' fees:, $75,000). Now living in Ireland, Dacey released a thicker version of his manual last spring. He tries not to be bitter. "There are honest lawyers," says he, "just as there are four-leaf clovers...
...first murder, of a Leeds prostitute, in October 1975, the police are not close to an arrest. They have, however, built up a general picture of the killer; they know his blood type and shoe size and believe that he is between 30 and 50, an artisan or manual worker, powerfully built and white. Still, they cannot explain many points, including the variable intervals between killings that range from as little as three weeks to as long as 14 months...