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Marshall also developed briefs the University planned to file in the Hopwood suit against the University of Texas challenging affirmative-action in higher education. Ultimately, the case never reached the Supreme Court, but Marshall's research will be used "when the next one comes," Rudenstine said...
That conversation took on more significance when Morris' end of it was reported in the Star. Although the account was not entirely accurate--we did not change the cover to suit Morris--the story did provide evidence that the call girl who was the paper's source was there at the time...
...were they there? That's like asking why the man in the bumblebee suit was there, strolling around the lobby of the hotel where most of the press had headquarters. Conventions are gatherings of people any number of other people might want to talk to. At a travel-agents convention I once wandered into, operators of cruise lines and resort hotels were there to talk to the travel agents; advertising departments of travel magazines were there to talk to the operators of cruise lines and resort hotels. For all I know, manufacturers of something like expense-account forms might have...
Actually, I did ask the man in the bumblebee suit what he was doing at the Republican National Convention--or, to be more precise, why he was dressed in a bumblebee suit. An environmental statement? Something about what federal prosecutors sometimes call a sting? I did not receive a satisfactory answer...
...reporters in Chicago this week will be bumping into a Dole look-alike or into some real Republican who didn't have a lock of hair falling over his forehead in the first place. Or will they have to content themselves with an enigmatic man dressed in a bumblebee suit...