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...legal process took so long though that third-year student DeFunis was scheduled to graduate this spring no matter how the Supreme Court ruled. To the disappointment of the braced opponents, five of the Justices seized on this factual quirk and declared the case moot because DeFunis' law-school status no longer presented a controversy. The minority contended that the court was really "straining to rid itself of this dispute...
...University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham performs 50 a week (and could do more), many Alabama women avoid what they consider a stigma by traveling to Georgia for a readily available legal operation or even by seeking clandestine abortions closer to home. In Louisiana, because of a legal quirk, only one doctor openly does abortions. But hospitals in both Florida and Texas, as well as a growing number of special clinics, offer abortion services...
...interpretations of other composers' work −notably the Mozart G Minor Symphony and the Bach Brandenburg Concertos. The neglected Fairy Queen-half opera half masque-is perhaps his finest effort: vibrantly joyous, magisterial in its command yet tender in the plaints of the soloists (especially Bass John Shirley-Quirk's Next, winter comes slowly...
McCurdy will be hard pressed to replace Jim Quirk's 4:07 mile, but cross country men Jim Keefe, Jeff Brokaw, freshman Jeff Campbell and workhorse Ric Rojas will shoot for the low four-minute marker...
...only have hurdler Dewey Hickman and record-holding middle-distance men John Quirk and Bob Clayton departed from the ranks, but Bill McCurdy will take a sabbatical beginning in January and lasting through spring semester...