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...soon as Ward Connerly entered the hearing room in California's state Capitol one evening last month, a young black man rushed up and grabbed his hand. But this was no friendly welcome. "Mr. Connerly, you're a traitor," the man said angrily, gripping hard and not letting go. "You're an embarrassment to your race...
...self-made man, "Ward finds it insulting to think that any black person might need affirmative action to compete," says San Francisco lawyer William Bagley, an opponent of Connerly's on the university board of regents. "He didn't need it. He doesn't see why anyone else should...
...physical two-game series which included one contest in which the teams amassed over 52 minutes of penalties, the Crimson was unable to ward off the Bulldog attack and its modest winning streak came to an abrupt...
Harvard, however, was too young and too tired to ward off the bigger Cornell squad. After 60 minutes of physical, emotional play, the Big Red walked away with a 4-2 victory the next night and a ticket to the ECAC semifinals in Lake Placid...
DENVER: Although Denver businesswoman Carole Ward must have experienced immense satisfaction, she had to know she'd pay a price for telling off IRS agent Paula Dzierzanowski during a 1993 dispute over $324,000 in unpaid income taxes. "Honey, from what I can see of your accounting skills, the country would be better served if you were dishing up chicken-fried steak on some interstate in west Texas, with all the clunky jewelry and big hair," Ward said in the heat of negotiations. Retaliation from the feds was swift and sure: Within weeks, IRS agents posted notices that led locals...