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...Harvard women's basketball team was up against history--as well as Yale--when it entered Saturday night's game winless in 10 previous attempts at Payne Whitney...
...ensuing faceoff, Brown's first line of McShane, Whitney Robbins, and Jane Corcoran barrelled in on White and tied the game...
Deaver's prosecutor, Whitney North Seymour Jr., also refused the parallel appointment. Noting that last week's decision had invalidated the court appointment that is Seymour's sole source of authority, Deaver's lawyers quickly filed a motion to vacate the jury verdict and throw out the charges against their client, who faces a possible 15-year prison sentence. For Deaver, says Philip Lacovara, former counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor, the court's decision is like the "arrival of the 7th Cavalry." But Custer's 7th Cavalry was wiped out at Little Bighorn, and whether Deaver will...
...sizable majorities, Reagan had little choice but to sign it, despite what he called "strong doubts about its constitutionality." Rejecting the measure would have been especially awkward for the President, since some of those under investigation are among his closest cronies. The Deaver verdict was a victory for Whitney North Seymour Jr., a former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan who was appointed special prosecutor in May 1986. After the verdict, Seymour, himself a Republican, lashed out at the Reagan Administration for its lack of ethical leadership. Without such a guiding example, he said, the best that special prosecutors...
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael K. Deaver stood stiffly beside his lawyer in a federal courtroom in Washington last week, expecting the worst. His lawyers, in a long-shot gamble, had presented no evidence to counter the assertion by Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. that Deaver had repeatedly lied under oath about his lucrative lobbying business. When the jury returned guilty verdicts on three of five counts, canny Defense Counsel Jack Miller manfully shouldered the blame: "We didn't put on a defense because we didn't think we had to. The jury verdict suggests...