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Freshman Sarah Wilson deflected a pass from classmate Lauren Herrington into the back of the net for the game-winner just 46 seconds into extra time. Wilson’s prompt strike answered a challenge issued in the locker room after regulation and redeemed an inconsistent Harvard effort...
...would almost certainly raise the level of hostility toward the West throughout the region and provoke retaliation against U.S. interests in Iraq and elsewhere. Iran is threatening to retaliate if it is even referred to the Security Council, let alone made the target of sanctions. Tehran says referral will prompt it to end all voluntary cooperation with the IAEA. And oil prices have already risen on fears that Iran will retaliate by reducing its exports...
...purpose of rule 12(b)(6) is to permit prompt resolution of a case where the allegations in the complaint clearly demonstrate that the plaintiff's claim is legally insufficient. See General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Abington Cas. Ins. Co., 413 Mass. 583, 584 (1992); Fabrizio v. Quincy, 9 Mass.App.Ct. 733, 734 (1980). In evaluating the allowance of a motion to dismiss, we are guided by the familiar principle that a complaint is sufficient "unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of [its] claim which would entitle [it] to relief." Nader...
...also Globe Newspaper Co. v. Beacon Hill Architectural Comm'n, 421 Mass. 570, 583 (1996), and cases cited ("An administrative agency has jurisdiction to establish regulations that bear a rational relation to the statutory purpose"). Such regulations are to "be construed to ensure the public prompt access to all public records in the custody of [S]tate governmental entities and in the custody of governmental entities of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth." 950 Code Mass. Regs. § 32.02. The regulations define "[p]ublic records" in the same manner as G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth. See 950 Code Mass...
...intuitive. Bono arrives with no security, takes gifts (a leather-bound volume of Seamus Heaney for Patrick Leahy, a framed copy of the Marshall Plan speech for Colin Powell) to suit his host's taste. He poses for every staff picture, and his thank-you notes are handwritten and prompt. He wears whatever he pleases. "I refuse to be anything other than what I am," he says. "I literally get into the clothes at the end of the bed. If somebody doesn't take them off and wash them, things would probably get a bit high...