Word: moffitt
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...even at her peak she had a pretty hard time with Chris Evert and Margaret Court. Sheryl Swoopes is more dazzling, and Mia Hamm combines finesse and power in what may be a palimpsest for the New Athletic Woman. But before any of them, there was Billie Jean Moffitt King, 20 times a champion at Wimbledon, who changed the way we look at female athletes--and, more important, changed the way they look at one another. "She was a crusader fighting a battle for all of us," said Navratilova. "She was carrying the flag; it was all right...
Jeremy L. Lizt '97, Jeffrey D. Krauss '97 and Alber J. Moffitt '97 created the Class of 1997 Last Chance Data-match in order to give the "member[s] of the Class of '97 the opportunity to get together with that special someone (or special someones)," they said...
Lizt originally threw out the idea of the Datamatch to a group of friends, both male and female, as a half-joke. Since the initial response was over-whelmingly positive, Lizt, Krauss and Moffitt decided to make the idea a reality. The Last Chance Dance provided the necessary venue...
Whittle first gained national attention in the early '80s as co-owner and rescuer of the financially ailing Esquire magazine. After selling out to partner Philip Moffitt, Whittle used the proceeds to expand a mini-empire of magazines aimed at such specialized audiences as teenage girls and travel agents. The profitability of these ventures, as well as Whittle's innovative plans for moving into electronic media, enticed outside investors, including Time Warner, which now owns 33% of Whittle Communications. From 1987 through 1992, the company's revenues rose from $82 million to $213 million. The growth was due largely...
What makes the plea so difficult is that it is inherently confusing. "It's an attempt to explain rationally the irrational," says William Moffitt, an Alexandria, Va., defense attorney. The legal term insanity bears little resemblance to common parlance or even medical usage. Generally, the legal test is that at the time a crime was committed, the defendant was suffering from a mental defect that made him or her incapable of telling right from wrong. Some states also consider whether a defendant's mental illness impaired the ability to control one's actions. The Dahmer case is expected to hinge...