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...York sometimes seems to be run not so much by its elected officials as by the heads of its powerful civil service unions - men like Albert Shanker of the teachers union, Ken McFeeley of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and Victor Gotbaum of the municipal employees union. Over the years, those organizations have wrenched some extraordinary settlements from the city. A garbage collector's base pay after three years is $14,800. A policeman can retire at half pay after 20 years on the force, and probably collect more money in pension before he dies than he ever...
Although the writers have chosen to lean on an overdose of in-jokes and law school bards that may make a daytime trek to the Law School a prerequisite for many of the laughs, director Victor Budnik pulls things together coherently enough. If he could only have scrapped a few leads, at little expense to the already loosely conducted plot, then maybe he would have been able to work in the type of situation comedy that need not rely on HLS chumminess to get the laughs. But as it is now, you have to pan through a river of plot...
Instead, Silver rebounded his own miss, banked a jumper, and watched the clock expire with Harvard the victor...
Lane is far from the worst offender. He has proven himself to be a painstaking and careful researcher, posing extremely provocative questions: Why did the FBI tell Harcourt, Brace, and World that it didn't want Rush to Judgment published?. Why did Victor Marchetti, former CIA agent and present investigator of the organization tell a journalist who had covered the Clay Shaw trial in New Orleans that the CIA was very interested in the case because Shaw was a high ranking CIA operative? (Shaw was a New Orleans businessman accused by city District Attorney Jim Garrison of conspiring to assassinate...
...Butler was the only Crimson victor on the track. He blasted over the hurdles in 7.7 to nip Bulldog Herm Davis at the tape...