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Late in the second period, the final nail in the coffin was driven deep by Higdon, collecting his third point of the day (he captured the assist on the first Harvard goal, winning the face...
...school student Lee said of his interview: "We engaged in the Socratic method of questioning and answering. They take a particular point and try to nail...
Last week, Texaco board chair Peter I. Bijur settled a class-action lawsuit that had been filed several years ago by several black employees who claimed they were denied promotion opportunities because of their race. The corporation, which had previously been fighting the suit tooth and nail, offered the $176.1 million settlement only after a former Texaco executive disclosed a tape-recording he had made of a 1994 board meeting. On the recording, top Texaco brass discuss destroying evidence of hiring discrimination while using racially insulting language...
...fight for Congress had almost everything the presidential contest lacked. Not necessarily public excitement: the low turnout in the presidential race also held down the numbers of voters who pulled levers for House and Senate candidates. But certainly closeness, unpredictability, even down-to-the-wire, nail-biting suspense. So many races looked so even so late in the campaign that as the voting began, pundits were hedging even more blatantly than usual. Either party, they proclaimed, could wind up king of Capitol Hill--and by either a tiny or a huge margin...
...begun in 1907 by two German scholars, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, but since the publication of its 37th volume in 1950, it has tried to do no more than issue occasional volumes of updates. Even that is a task comparable to repainting the Brooklyn Bridge with a nail-polish brush. Thieme-Becker is not, in any case, translated into English...