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...don’t know why this happened,” Yale professor David Mayhew, an expert in national politics, writes in an e-mail. “A bit of it is family: A Bush like an Adams or a Taft can procreate. Perhaps there was some nontrivial environmental thing going on in New Haven in the 1960s and 1970s. Who knows? Perhaps it is a fluke...
...meantime, the cities had no choice but to cope as best they could--get the sanitation workers out to harvest the remains of every dead refrigerator, get the buses and trains moving. Ohio Governor Bob Taft declared a state of emergency in Cleveland after all four pumping stations that lift water out of Lake Erie went out and residents were ordered to boil their water at least through Sunday. Even the beaches were off limits for swimming after a sewage discharge sent bacteria levels soaring. At least one house fire in the city was blamed on burning candles...
...would be difficult to make a criminal insider-trading case against the pair because the government would have to prove that Stewart knew the significance of Waksal's sale when she sold the stock. "It's a tricky case," says Greg Markel, a securities-law specialist at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in New York City. A broker passing along a tip from one client to another "is not that unusual," says John Teakell, a former SEC litigator in Dallas. (In Bacanovic's case, says a defense attorney, "it probably could have been a lot subtler...
Chauncey was born Feb. 9, 1905, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the first child of Episcopalian minister Egisto Fabbri Chauncey and deaconess Edith Lockwood Taft Chauncey...
...Taft leaves a brother, Louis Dienes of New York City, and a sister, Margaret Dienes of Nevada. A memorial service will be held in the spring...