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...Averell--a campus funny-man known for membership in the improv group On Thin Ice and his cartoon Neil World in The Crimson--wants to make having fun into serious business for the council...
...Boies perches, writing in longhand in an 8 1/2-by-11-in. notebook on his lap. Mildly dyslexic since childhood, he memorizes almost everything, so he need only read things once. Junior partners are warned never to tell him anything they aren't sure of, for he might pull it out of thin air months later in open court...
That's why Sox fans keep coming back year after year, through thick and thin. Last season, the Red Sox had the highest-priced tickets in the majors, and still the team set a franchise record for attendance. As one Boston baseball scribe put it last Sunday, Red Sox "fans roam through the turnstiles like grazing sheep...
PRODUCT A thin gold necklace with a gaudy monogrammed nameplate...
...estimate of civil rights attorney Penda Hair of the Washington-based Advancement Project, "hundreds, maybe thousands" of votes were affected, more than enough to have swung a razor-thin election. Whether all this was the result of a racist plot or a by-product of insensitive police work and the incompetence of precinct workers remains to be investigated by the Justice Department. But in a sense, any skulduggery the feds discover will be beside the point, a mere footnote to the triumphant story of how this year the black vote came of age, thanks largely to Jesse Jackson. Lord knows...