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...ease off on the throttle with a quarter-point cut (25 basis points). Wall Street, its ears ringing with the daily dirges of the tech and manufacturing sectors alike, would very much prefer another 50-basis-point lopping, but the betting seems to be settling on a 25-pointer, for several reasons...
...that Brown defeat, Peljto hit a three-pointer from a foot outside the arc with a defender bearing down on her to give the Crimson its last lead of the night in a 59-57 defeat. Against Yale five weeks later, she was given the ball with 20 seconds left and her team facing a three-point deficit. She flawlessly drained the game-tying shot, part of a season-high 27 points on the night. Although, the Crimson lost both games, Peljto's play was promising of things to come...
...night against Princeton, but that didn't stop him from scoring when it counted. He took the game into his own hands in the final minute, knocking down a turnaround jumper with 7.4 seconds left to give Harvard a one-point lead. But Kyle Wente's one-handed three-pointer at the buzzer saved the game for Princeton, which went on to win the Ivy title...
...Gilchrist investigation is long overdue. Her work has been making colleagues queasy for years. In January 1987, John Wilson, a forensic scientist with the Kansas City police crime lab, filed a complaint about her with the Southwestern Association of Forensic Scientists. (The association declined to take action.) Jack Dempsey Pointer, president of the Oklahoma Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, says his group has been fighting for an investigation "almost since the time she went to work" at the lab. "We have been screaming in the wind, and nobody has been listening...
Which raises a more troubling question. How many other Gilchrists are there? In Oklahoma City, Chief Berry has ordered a wholesale review of the serology/DNA lab. And while Governor Keating insists that no one has been executed who shouldn't have been, Pointer and the local defense-lawyers association plan to re-examine the cases of the 11 executed inmates. "Nobody cares about the dead," he says. "The state is not going to spend money to find out that they executed someone who might have been innocent...