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...River, four Congresswomen gleefully summed up the moment. Said Democrat Geraldine Ferraro of New York: "We've got the issues, we've got the gender gap on our side, and at long last the men are going to pay attention to us." Republican Congresswomen Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island and Olympia Snowe of Maine said that even the White House had begun to take notice. Not a moment too soon. The fourth member of the group, Democrat Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut, had brought both Republican and Democratic delegates to their feet cheering when she pronounced President Ronald Reagan...
Wright wittily eviscerates the adolescents and haughty matrons who defended Claus (Character Witness Ann Brown, one of Rhode Island's grandest dames, addressed a lawyer "in a tone surely known to every butler in Newport"). But for all its malicious detail, The Von Bülow Affair never really answers the question that nags at every reader: Did Claus really do it? Wright plainly believes Von Bülow is guilty, and even Defense Attorney John Sheehan labeled the prosecution's case "overwhelming." But the examination of the clues is so clumsily marshaled that the reader is left...
...archipelago. Says Mark Pisano, executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments: "There has never been one huge predominant city. There have been conglomerations." Most of what commonly passes for L.A. lies inside the generous boundaries (4,083 sq. mi.) of Los Angeles County. The county, bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, contains lots of undeveloped, unincorporated scrubland as well as 82 towns and cities. The largest, of course, is the City of Los Angeles, which consists of 464 sq. mi. in the center of the county...
...Rhode Island state police last February established a central "civil depository" for children's fingerprints and other identifying information, claiming that the records would never be used against them if their fingerprints turned up in later criminal investigations. Two weeks ago, after a furious public debate, a new law ordered the depository to shut down. Says a relieved Steven Brown, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Rhode Island: "Parents were in essence waiving their children's privacy and freedom from selfincrimination. They can't do that, even though they are parents." Bills setting...
Regular-season figures should provide some indication of the batsmen's chances. Temple and Harvard played three common opponents: South Florida, Rhode Island and Princeton. The Owls swept Rhode Island, split with Princeton and dropped a pair to South Florida, while the Crimson lost to Rhode Island, split with Princeton and swept South Florida. So who's going to win? Who knows...