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...legal morality in Washington. His handling of political contributions became a national scandal, but he successfully defied congressional committees that sought to bring him to heel. Once he walked out of a public hearing after refusing to testify. Brought before both civil and ecclesiastical courts he always got off scot free, though only his plea for Christian forgiveness saved him from the wrath of fellow churchmen...
After three years, Panayiota finally found a lawyer who would listen to her. Last November, in Nicosia's green-walled district court, Panayiota faced Zekia Bey, the judge. Nervously she displayed photographs of her dead Scot lover: Blue Eyes clearly looked like him. Then swarthy Mrs. Shatis stepped to the bar. She cried hysterically that Blue Eyes was hers...
Munro inherited eleven letter-winners from his predecessor, wee Scot James MacDonald, and has used, with a few modifications, the short pass, English style of play that MacDonald taught. But according to the small coterie of old-time Boston soccer enthusiasts who are the only regular rooters for the team, the Crimson has improved considerably over the past two years. Under Munro, it plays a more coordinated control game than last year, when it won seven and lost...
...story is not greatly changed by such new information as the full text of his letters provides; it merely seems more miserable. The child of actors, he lost his mother before he was three years old, and was taken into the household of John Allan, a Scot by birth, who inherited a considerable fortune-Poe estimated...
...puttin' on a wee drap o' music an' drama, ye ken," explained a kilted Scot, "but yer no' gettin' awa' wi' it all as a gift...