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...People overlook his two-way skills," Tomassoni says. "In the ECAC quarterfinals his sophomore year, I used him to shadow Joe Juneau [currently playing for the Boston Bruins...
...administration's bungling of the guards' complaints reveals a disturbing lack of attention to a group we could so easily overlook. If seven tenured professors leveled the same charges, University Hall would turn itself over trying to get to the bottom of the accusations...
Lately, however, bisexuality has been hard to overlook. Bisexual characters are the newest twist in movies and TV shows, most notably Basic Instinct and L.A. Law. PBS recently broadcast a drama based on the lives of writers Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, both bisexuals. Authors Camille Paglia and the late John Cheever have confessed their sexual duality; recent biographies claim that Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant and Eleanor Roosevelt had affairs with both men and women...
...while DNA typing has been widely used since the mid-1980s, defense lawyers often cried foul. The test, they argued, is not always done carefully, and the results tend to make jurors overlook other evidence. Now here was a respected research organization urging courts to ban DNA fingerprinting until the scientific basis for the technique could be established more firmly. What could be better...
...important," Schulman wrote in an open letter to Law School students this weekend, "Not to overlook the fact that, in the very year that the Harvard Law, Review was insensitive and misogynist enough to produce the 'Revue' it was also able to elect only the third women president in its 106 year history. That can be taken as a sign of hope...