Word: suited
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...Republic is in ruins! Don Mattingly -- six-time All-Star first baseman for the New York Yankees, captain of a once proud baseball team, Gotham's nicest < guy -- was benched last week because his not very long hair was too long to suit the Yankee brass. Like a dean's list student sent to the principal's office for chewing bubble gum, Mattingly, 30, was told he wouldn't be in the lineup until he looked like a West Point cadet. Some speculated that Mattingly was being punished for saying he wanted to be traded...
...Detroit scheme hit a roadblock just weeks before school started, when the A.C.L.U. and the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Detroit mother with three daughters. The suit argued that the plan would deny girls the right to an equal education. Not incidentally, black girls in Detroit have a 45% dropout rate. Last week U.S. District Judge George E. Woods agreed and ordered school officials to come up with a program to accommodate both sexes. "The young adolescent black male is most definitely an endangered species in this community," said Woods...
...attorney in the Hawaii suit, Jeffrey R. Anderson of St. Paul, has become a specialist in civil damage suits involving alleged priestly sex abuse and is pursuing more than 100 cases at present. Last December he won the biggest award to date, $3.5 million (reduced to $1.04 million on appeal) in the case of Father Thomas Adamson. Allegations against Adamson spanned 22 years, but two Catholic dioceses kept shuttling him into new assignments...
...feeling of betrayal and the erosion of esteem for priests among many parishioners. The potential for such spiritual devastation escalated considerably last week, as a federal civil lawsuit was filed against Honolulu bishop Joseph A. Ferrario, 65, the first member of the U.S. hierarchy to face a sex-abuse suit. A spokesman for the bishop said in response, "These are old allegations, made by the same people. The bishop has denied them every time...
Some enthusiasts want a bike to suit every occasion. While one is fine for long solo rides, another might be more appropriate for family outings. Even Michael Sinyard, a regular racer in his spare time, often spends the afternoon on a Specialized Deja Two tandem with his seven-year-old daughter. Says he: "She loves it. She says, 'Dad! This is a great bike! My legs never get tired!' " Other parents tow their youngsters in the $300 Cannondale Bugger, a polyethylene shell that allows the whimsical child to sit facing backward, watching the landscape spin away...