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...singles brackets, Harvard placed four players in the 64-player field, a very impressive showing for such a young team. DeLone, Samantha Ettus, Elmuts and Rachel Pollack were all invited to compete. Pollack, unfortunately, was forced to withdraw due to an injured shoulder...
...become part of the story they are covering. Totenberg is no stranger to scoops or controversy. Until the Thomas hearings, she was probably best known for her 1987 disclosure that Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg smoked marijuana while a law professor at Harvard. The subsequent furor compelled Ginsburg to withdraw his candidacy. A Boston University dropout, Totenberg graduated from the women's page of the Boston Record-American to the now defunct National Observer. She was fired from the Observer after writing a story that contained quotes she lifted from the Washington Post. Since joining NPR in 1974, Totenberg...
...tone of his opening statement was so bitter, in fact, that many listeners thought he was leading up to a withdrawal of his candidacy. But he stopped short of that, apparently determined to clear his name even if he could not salvage his place on the court. "I would have preferred an assassin's bullet to this kind of living hell," he said the next day. But still, he insisted, he would "rather die than withdraw...
...Today. In it, Keith Henderson, an old friend of hers who is also a former Senate Judiciary staff member, is quoted as saying Hill was advised by Senate staff members that her FBI affidavit would be the instrument that "quietly and behind the scenes" would force Thomas to withdraw, without her name ever becoming public. Specter pressed her to recall discussing such a scenario with anyone. First she demurred that she did not recall that specific comment. Pressed again, she allowed, "There might have been some conversation about what could possibly occur." On Saturday Specter quickly attacked Hill's change...
Bank of America says it made plans to sever relations with B.C.C.I. in 1988. | "We decided to withdraw from this business with B.C.C.I. over a three-year period," says Bank of America spokesman Jim Mitchell. "Between 1989 and 1991, the dollar volume of our B.C.C.I. item-clearing business was reduced by almost two-thirds." Bank of America, insists Mitchell, had no knowledge of any illegal activity by B.C.C.I...