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...Editor's Note: Due to an editing error, the online version appears as a different version from the one in print. FM apologizes for the confusion...
...that could question Ball's claim of innocence. A memo dated May 12, 1981, praised one branch manager who earned $30,000 a month in interest through check overdrafting. That profit fell to $10,000 a month when the branch changed cashiers. In June 1981, Ball wrote a covering note to the memo, addressed to regional offices. He noted tersely: "A point well worth remembering, and acting...
...generally answers the majority point by point and lays out a narrow interpretation of the ruling, which can be helpful to those who later challenge it. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor caught him at it in a case earlier this year and wrote with annoyance in a foot note, "Justice Brennan not only distorts the reasoning and holding of our decision but, worse, invites trial courts and prosecutors to do the same...
...lunacy is a sign of authentic genius, not just a teenage hormonal fire storm, he could find his way to that imaginary land where Borg plays Tilden, and Laver goes against Budge, in the dream draws of endlessly fantasizing fans. For now, though, he is just a gaudy note in the annals of a game that delights in its overnight successes, then makes up its mind about authentic greatness with becoming, almost anachronistic, slowness. --By Richard Schickel. Reported by Steven Holmes/London and John Kohan/Leimen
Meanwhile, she moved quietly to assuage the bad feelings of last summer. In March she wrote a private note to Budd, saying, "I apologize for hurting your feelings." Though still insisting that Budd was in the wrong for cutting in, Slaney, in a TV interview earlier this month, accepted some of the blame for "not knowing how to handle the situation ... I should have let her know she was cutting in." For her part, Budd acknowledged that she may have cut in too quickly and made the startling assertion that she purposely lost the race after the collision because...