Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Harvard men's hockey Coach Bill Cleary '56 has been appointed to the post of athletic director, will he trade in the flea-bitten red sweater he wears each game for an administrator's three-piece suit? That may be the biggest question surrounding the transition from Jack Reardon '60 to Cleary at the athletic department...
...Evitas and first-chair violinists. You're coming for the sun, so set out for Sarasota's Lido Key. With a stretch of motels and hotels and rental places all within two blocks of the Gulf of Mexico, all you have to do is get there with a bathing suit and suntan lotion--and a little cash...
...order "to get things straight. Sometimes I wished the voice were like a violin, an instrument in a box -- and you could put the box in a closet." But the period of questioning is over. Time now to celebrate all those sad, mad girls in productions that just might suit. As the prima donna promises, "I'm just starting my prime...
With each supervisor representing approximately 1.5 million people -- more than the combined size of three congressional districts -- the Los Angeles County board is the most powerful local-government body in the country, wielding broad executive and legislative powers. The suit asserts that in order to preserve their political bases the five white supervisors, in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act, drafted a redistricting plan in 1981 that deliberately diluted Latino voting strength by splitting the county's then 2 million Hispanics among three districts. The board, charges A.C.L.U. attorney Mark Rosenbaum, is "the most powerful and enduring all- whites...
...legal history is on the plaintiffs' side. Ever since the 1980 census pointed up the disparity between Hispanics' growing numbers in the U.S. and their lack of political representation, Latino groups have pushed the Justice Department to bring -- and win -- a series of cases similar to the L.A. County suit. Such actions have prompted the redrawing of state and congressional districts in Illinois and Texas. "Should we win this case, our community will get a big psychological boost," says Antonia Hernandez, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a party to the suit...