Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...split second defensive breakdown in front of the Harvard net left senior defenseman Marco Ferrari unable to find his bearings. Taking advantage of the confusion, Big Red senior Steve Wilson, positioned to the left of freshman Harvard goaltender J.R. Prestifilippo, laid a pass down in front of the net. Sophomore Kyle Knopp collected the puck, faked right around Ferrari, went left and scored down the middle...
...left Simpson lawyers swearing that there was no way their client could ever pay up. Whether or not he does will first depend on Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki, who has 110 days to approve or reduce the amount of the award. Unlike Tuesday's unanimous verdict, the jury split 11 to 1 on whether the Goldmans and Browns should receive punitive damages and 10 to 2 on the amount to be paid. Jurors reached a decision after a day of examining financial reports. Simpson attorneys argued the former football great is $9 million in the red, has no prospects of earning...
Hearing the verdict in the civil trial earlier this week, our thoughts inevitably returned to the criminal trial, and we were driven to reflect on the O.J. saga in its entirety. For myself, I can't help wondering why America was split asunder rather than united in disgust when this man murdered two innocent human beings. At least we may be grateful that the whole sad business of the O.J. Simpson case is over: Reqiescat in pace...
Harvard joined the nation in watching not one, but two events on "Must-See" television Tuesday, as several networks chose to run a split screen of President Clinton's State of the Union Address and the announcement of the verdict in the O.J. Simpson civil trial...
...must have felt snakebit when, an hour before the scheduled State of the Union speech, the Simpson jury announced they had reached a verdict. As the White House frantically phoned networks to make sure they would not break away from covering the speech (NBC said they would use a split screen), spokesman Mike McCurry said that, despite the fuss over the Simpson verdict, the speech would go on as scheduled. One House Republican even asked if he could bring a portable television into the chamber so he wouldn't miss the verdict. Oddly enough, in a country obsessed...