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...predicament, of course is marshalling the Crimson's talent on a match-to-match basis. Harvard's fall golf reason was marked by inconsistent play and rounds soaring well into the 80s, numbers that won't bring any trophies home in the next few weeks...
...Ireland gave the world Van Morrison; in the '70s, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats; in the '80s, U2 and Sinead O'Connor. Now there's Black 47. The group's new album deals with such subjects as class warfare and potato famine, and their new video Funky Ceili is getting heavy play on MTV. Then there's the Irish band Hothouse Flowers, whose new album Songs from the Rain is both intelligent and evocative, full of the kind of arena-size emotions that are likely to seduce large audiences. And the new compilation Straight Outta Ireland -- whose title plays...
...come to the United States via Germany and attained permanent alien status as a "farmworker" under a 1986 immigration law, the 6-ft. 4-in., 240-lb. redhead had in reality toiled as a cabbie -- a crooked one, his former boss suggested. He journeyed to Afghanistan in the late '80s to fight as a member of the Islamic, antigovernment mujahedin. More to the point, he was close to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the fiery blind Muslim preacher whose fundamentalist sermons may have inspired the alleged bombers. Abohalima acted as the sheik's driver and did chores around the clergyman...
...that is definitely the trend. The first step, in the mid-'80s, was to reduce some of the benefits packages for the lower-tier workers, and that continues. The next step was to fire middle-level management. The third step was to reduce benefits packages across the board for all employees. And now we're at the fourth step, which is to do much more business by contract, whether it is with contingent workers and part-time workers or by contracting...
During the war on crime of the '70s and the war on drugs of the '80s, funneling money to defend suspects was a low priority. Meanwhile, the ranks of police and prosecutors were beefed up, leading to more arrests, more trials and more work for public defenders. "Indigent defense is a cause without a constituency," says Stephen Bright, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights. Over the years, states have unenthusiastically devised three strategies to handle indigent cases: public defender offices, court-appointed lawyers and contract systems. In all cases, the emphasis is on holding costs down. Justice...