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...Harvard, the opening game of the 1987-'88season will almost certainly be its hardest. Andnot for four more years will Cleary be so jovialin defeat.CrimsonD. Jean GuthCrusader running back WILLIE BRADFORD (33)loses the football and Harvard Captain KEVINDULSKY (96), GREG UBERT (56), RICHARD PUCCIO (94)and PETER ALLEN (85) pursue it eagerly inSaturday's contest...
Dulsky and Peterson are joined on the starting line by senior Greg Williams and junior Jim Bell at the tackles and junior Tom McConnell at middle guard. Junior Peter Allen and sophomore Richard Puccio have also seen significant playing time...
...inquiry got under way. Here was Bronx Democratic Leader Stanley Friedman, an equally mighty politico who was accused of bribing Manes to arrange a city contract with a company in which Friedman held stock. The case pitted Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, a prosecutor with political ambitions, against Thomas Puccio, the attorney who won acquittal for Claus von Bulow on charges that he tried to kill his wife. The prosecution's chief witness was a confessed extortionist who had set up a phony clinic where, he admitted, he had sex with several patients. After four days of deliberations, the jury...
Dershowitz said he and Tom Puccio, von Bulow's courtroom attorney in the second trial, arrived at their decision at a Providence, R.I. "summit meeting" with the socialite just before the second trial began. They concluded that chances for acquittal would be best if the defense's case focused on medical testimony that Sunny's comas were not clearly induced by insulin...
After performing those feats of damage control, Puccio narrowed his own case to one clear, pointed counterpunch. No crime had been committed, he declared, because Mrs. Von Bulow had never been given any insulin. A series of medical experts backed his contention that there was no firm proof of insulin injection. With much of the circumstantial evidence against Von Bulow in tatters, most lawyers agree that the jury had little choice. But some disparaged Puccio's performance. "What victory?" snorted one former colleague. "Against a prosecutor with little experience and a judge who leaned his way?" Others were more impressed...