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Their efforts were in vain, however, as the Crimson had dropped four of the five middle-weight match-ups, including the 158-pound match by pin, and the 142-pound match by technical fall...
...their viciousness. A scenario that called for running Kerrigan's car off the road was rejected because the team was afraid that their own "beater car" might be disabled and strand them at the scene of the crime. The hitman, Shane Stant, roamed Cape Cod in a vain attempt to find his quarry. She wasn't there, though Gillooly claims that Harding herself made phone calls to get the times of Kerrigan's practices. When Stant finally scored in Detroit, Eckardt boasted to Gillooly that Stant had hit Kerrigan six times over her body, including once in the head. Fortunately...
...course we might decide to outlaw sexist or racist speech. But then, to be fair, we would also have to outlaw saying the Lord's name in vain. If a fundamentalist Christian can maintain civility in the presence of infidels in her classroom, why can't we show the same forebearance toward those we consider racist and sexist? There is no good reason why the state--and by extension the university--should treat bigots, evangelical fundamentalists, and politically-correct proselytizers any differently...
...better for Gerry Conlon to live here than Belfast, or "this God-forsaken place," as both his father and aunt put it. Gerry has been sent to London to clean up, but instead he and a friend discover commune life, drugs, and petty theivery. He is a ragged, vain, young man, who uses the word "fuck" indiscriminately and consistently...
...would conclude that Hillary had a conflict in this situation," argues Frank White, Clinton's G.O.P. predecessor as Governor. At any rate, the stock deal, though approved, never went through. By the end of 1986, federal regulators had moved in on Madison Guaranty, ousting McDougal as chairman in the vain hope of rescuing the thrift...