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...That the Tribune is using the sunshine law to get into the records of [the Daily's] paper struck me as a dangerous precedent," Madden said, adding that he brought the case to an editorial board vote before he signed onto the petition...
Harvard, in response to the letdown of the previous game, struck early in game three to lead 6-1 and 12-2 before winning 15-3 on a block by Hart...
...cover the teacher's salary. When city schools chancellor Rudy Crew nixed the buyout, saying it would "adversely affect the opportunity for equity" among the city's schools, the parents went to court and took to the streets. After a week of rancorous meetings, the two sides struck a deal last Thursday that reinstated the teacher, Lauren Zangara, and returned the parents' money--but barred them from any future attempt to pay faculty salaries. The city "will allow parents to make valuable contributions to their schools," Crew said, "within appropriate limits...
...this period McCartney started Promise Keepers. In the spring of 1990 he and his friend Dave Wardell, an official of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, were preparing to travel from Boulder to Pueblo when McCartney was struck by a vision of stadiums filled with men willing to become deeply committed Christians. "He jumped in the car and said, 'Let's pray,'" says Wardell. "We prayed for three and a half hours. This guy is strong. He's stronger than bear's breath...
...only in 1970 that the British government, after countless centuries, decided that a pound sterling did not, in fact, consist of 20 shillings, each of which consisted in turn of 12 pence. Suddenly, the pound consisted of simply 100 pence--a system whose logic and simplicity must have struck the average English adult as positively disorienting...