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...foot-in-mouth disease. For a while the case looked fatal, but then Lefty Driesell spoke even louder... What can be said about a sophomore basketball team that died?... The young Terrapins, and in particular Tom McMillen, have been praised, pampered, and publicized so much by their loquacious coaching stall--Charles G. Lefty Driesell and his trusty sidekick. George (The Rave) Ravelin--that they were in real danger of becoming the most overrated team since Wayne and Shuster...
...Pakistanis, with their armies in retreat, said they would honor the ceasefire provided India did. The Indians, with victory in view, said they "were considering" the ceasefire, which meant they would stall until they had achieved their objective of dismembering Pakistan. There was nothing the assembly could do to enforce its will. There was considerable irony in India's reluctance to obey the U.N. resolution in view of New Delhi's irritating penchant in the past for lecturing other nations on their moral duty to do the bidding of the world organization. Similarly the Soviet Union, which is encouraging India...
...minute and a half left in the game, Holy Cross had cut the Crimson's lead to four points. Then Harvard's Jim Fitzsimmons hit a free throw, Marshall Sanders grabbed the rebound from the Crusaders' next shot, and the Crimson regained control of the game with a disciplined stall...
...states. At about the same time, Congress broadened the rules under which federal courts could treat class actions, opening the way for the consumer movement, environmentalist groups and public-interest law firms to spread the procedure nationwide. Worried defendants have already devised at least two counterploys. They seek to stall the suit, hoping that the class representatives will die, lose interest or move away. Or they meet the representatives' individual claims in the hope that no one else will press the suit. The latter stratagem was recently struck down by the California Supreme Court, which said that the original...
...knowledge of modern art-or, to be fair, by any knowledge of traditional great masters either-and suddenly came back to normal society as a reasonably intelligent man with a well-developed appreciation of beauty, I wonder how many of these paintings he would buy from a Left Bank stall for a dollar apiece...