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...started out like a routine call. Police in Columbus received a tip that a man was loitering outside a north-side town house. When the officers arrived, the intruder was inside with a ski mask and an array of burglary tools. Arrested was an improbable suspect: Dr. Edward Jackson, 38, a prominent local internist. The case be came even more improbable after the police searched Jackson's car. There they found a long list of rape victims, leading them to believe that Jackson was the "Grandville rapist," suspected of nearly 100 assaults in that affluent neighbor hood. Last week...
While it remains difficult to evaluate the mindset of an unapplauded lecturer, it's fairly easy to gauge how applause receivers feel. "No one who is honest about it," Clive says, "dislikes the applause." And freshmen seem prepared to continue this unique Harvard tradition. "It's like tipping," Gruber says. "If the waiter serves real slowly, you're still going to tip 15 percent...
...more important they continue to aver that the particular complaint of Ceasarian sections which affects only a small proportion of the Harvard affiliated women who use the facility is only the tip of the iceberg as fat as bad gynecologic practice is concerned...
...candidates, of course, always try to find and define what matters, but the voters do not always pay heed: on the morning after, national trends are often difficult to discern in mid-term elections. There is a certain wisdom in House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local." Yet across the country this fall, the campaign cacophony of pointing with pride and viewing with alarm will largely focus on where the action has been the past two years: the state of the economy and the remarkable shift in domestic policy inaugurated by Reagan...
Then, just before the vote, Speaker Tip O'Neill attacked Reagan's original rejection of the bill as "a dastardly political move by a man with a stone heart." Added O'Neill, with familiar hyperbole: "By vetoing this measure, the President wants us to make a choice between weapons and handicapped children." The Speaker had sensed the mood of the House: 81 Republicans abandoned Reagan to join 220 Democrats in overriding the veto; only 13 Democrats joined 104 Republicans to sustain...