Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proceeds from bets on the game, Eads and Johnson were not only interested but recruited Guards David Dominique and Bobby Thompson and Star Center John ("Hot Rod") Williams into the deal. Tulane beat Southern Mississippi by a single point. Two Saturdays later the players allegedly conspired to fix the Virginia Tech game, but the plan apparently misfired. Four days after that, they went into the tank again. Tulane, which finished the season with a mediocre 15-13 record, lost to Memphis State by eleven points, more than the four-point margin the betting line had predicted...
Even the Tigers, however, should pose no threat it the netwomen Princeton has lost to UNC--whom Harvard finished in treat of in tournament play--and Virginia, whom Harvard has beater...
...There may be dreadfully reasoned or mistaken opinions," says William Van Alstyne of Duke University Law School, "but they can't be rationalized by the age of the Justices." Although most have complained about the heavy case load, there is little talk of retirement. "After all," quips University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard, "the job doesn't involve any heavy lifting." The most discussed possible resignation at the moment is inevitably that of Powell, 77. "He is not the kind of person who would allow this situation to go on indefinitely," Philip Kurland of the University of Chicago...
Braithwaite has many other literary convictions. He prefers Thackeray to Dickens; he is saving Virginia Woolf for "when I'm dead." He would like to impose bans on certain categories of novel: those in which a group of people, isolated by circumstance, revert to the "natural condition" of man; novels about incest; those set in Oxford or Cambridge. He would also impose a quota system on fiction set in South America, "to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony...
Usually suppressing a growl, I answer "A place in Virginia called roanoke. You've never heard of it. I want a green eraseable...