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Respecting the student in a jock strap is one thing; outright favoritism is another. Restructuring an entire course to save 45 minutes of football practice for a handful of students can be called nothing else. The Ec Department needs to rethink its committment to all of its students, rather than rolling a red carpet towards the playing field...
...lost its $1.7 billion suit where it counts, at the bottom line. After five days of tortured debate, the five- woman, one-man jury awarded the new league $1 in damages. Even tripled, as antitrust damages are by law, the award would not buy the winners a new chin strap...
...Cambridge there's no reason to drink and drive. A world of drinking places lies just outside your door step. So close that a quick stumble fom any drinking establishment will land you in the privacy of your own bedroom. So sit back, strap yourself in (it's Massachusetts law now), and enjoy a whirlwind tour of Harvard's favorite drinking spots...
...guidelines in 1980, grievances have risen from 4,272 in 1981 to more than 6,300 in 1984, and courts have become more sensitive to complaints. Last August, for instance, a judge in Buffalo found a polygraph expert guilty of harassing five women by making unnecessary adjustments of a strap across their breasts, touching their thighs and making lewd comments. The court also found the company liable, even though the expert was an outside contractor, because it knew of his actions and did nothing about them. The decision is being appealed...
...There are three things you need to run a prison," said W.S. Neil, onetime warden of the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville, "a checkbook, a shotgun and the strap." Until the legislature outlawed corporal punishment, Neil routinely ordered the flogging of inmates with a leather strap. Now, as in those days of a generation ago, Tennessee has serious problems with its underfinanced and overcrowded penal system. In July there were riots at three prisons. In October a U.S. judge barred wardens from accepting any more inmates until the prison population was drastically cut. Last month a Memphis sheriff, with...