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...sophomore guard (who finished with a career-high 14 points) made a nifty steal and drove downcourt. Near the foul line, Jasper forward Antoine Owens made like a cornerback beaten on a fly pattern and tried to make a touchdown-saving tackle. Gielen was dragged to the floor, but not until he threw in the lay-up. A two-shot intentional foul was correctly called, and Gielen canned the freebies to cap an eight-point Harvard run which turned a 77-73 ballgame into an 85-73 Crimson cinch...
...once it has been lost, is trust. And Reagan has seriously, if unwittingly, strained the trust of allies, Congress and the American public in his Administration's credibility and competence. It is too early to say that his Presidency has been crippled, though that could happen if the dismaying pattern of new revelations and unconvincing explanations continues much longer. But it seems almost certain that whatever comes of the many investigations now in progress, Reagan will emerge as a diminished President, his aura of invincibility shattered, his fabled luck vanished, his every policy regarded with new suspicion...
...both coasts of the U.S. last week. An enormous scandal was spreading at the core of America's investment community, touching some of the biggest moneymen in the country. A civil and criminal investigation was peeling back layer after layer of evidence in a bid to uncover the full pattern of illegalities that had come to light in the $2.5 trillion U.S. stock market. There was even that ultimate Watergate touch: the disclosure that for weeks, perhaps months, conversations had been secretly tape-recorded in an effort to plumb the depths of the worst insider-trading scandal in U.S. history...
...like a pattern," says Sybil Lemon. "I never thought about that. If I had, I wouldn't want to be like that." At 22, Lemon can see the pattern clearly now. "We're talking about my mother, my auntie and two cousins." Each of them became pregnant in her teens, dropped out of school, went on welfare. So did Sybil. She was 17 when she met Jeffrey. "I was introduced to so many things through him," she recalls, "like liquor and drugs and stuff." Today she lives with her mother in a suburb of Chicago and supports her two-year...
...pattern that Lemon describes is more than one just of teenage pregnancy. In fact, the rate of births to black teenagers shows signs of declining. Yet the number of fatherless black families continues to grow, because a lower percentage of pregnant women are getting married. Census figures show 42% of single black women ages 18 to 29 have one or more children, vs. 7% among whites that age. "They are not following up pregnancy with marriage," says Chicago's William Wilson, "because joblessness among young black males in the inner city is so high that the male marriageable pool...