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MCAD arbitrates discrimination cases and determines if there is probable cause for a hearing. "As soon as a case comes through the door we try to settle," said Judith Wright, an MCAD spokesman. "If probable cause is the verdict, then the committee will go to a public hearing." She said that it will take at least 90 days before the commission reaches a decision...

Author: By James Hare, | Title: Cambridge Police Sued for Discrimination | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

...flamingo that he props outside the door wherever he parks. Most recently, the trailer -- and flamingo -- was parked in a wooded lot of a wealthy northern Virginia suburb while serving as home for Badanes, his itinerant opera-singing girlfriend Donna Walter, and their dog Floyd Bite (after Frank Lloyd Wright). But if a tacky trailer in an expensive Colonial suburb seems a little out of place to you, consider what Badanes and his three colleagues, architect-builders who call themselves the Jersey Devil, were constructing on the same lot: a multimillion-dollar house that's shaped like an overgrown hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Homes with Gusto | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

Admirers of McCarthy's works and career will not mind the hubris that opens this book ("I was born as a mind during 1925, my bodily birth having taken place in 1912") and that keeps it moving ("I was an intellectual by the time I reached Annie Wright ((Seminary)). And no one else was"). Newcomers are likely to be baffled. The author keeps dropping Edmund Wilson's name and opinions without volunteering until the end the information that the famous critic was to be her second husband. Of the photographs that accompany the text, three include McCarthy's younger brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary, Mary HOW I GREW | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

Providence centerfielder Steve Wright, who drove in all of the Friars' runs in the seventh with a three-run double, led off the inning with a single to right. Steve Castro followed with an identical single, and one out later, freshman catcher Brendon Walsh stroked a double to deep center to drive in the go-ahead...

Author: By Anne Gammons, | Title: Friars Stop Batsmen | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

Steve Boyle and Rob Palumbo were the main contributors to the Tigers' offense, accounting for five of the squad's seven goals. In the nets, Princeton goalie John Wright had 12 saves overall, while senior Mike Bergmann stopped 15 shots for the Crimson...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Revitalized Laxmen Hold off Tigers, 10-7 | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

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