Word: case
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...there were "NIT" banners at Yale's Payne Whitney Gym urging that tournament's selection committee to consider the Elis--Ivy League runner-up to Princeton--for its postseason tournament. Yale is unlikely to garner the bid, despite its 19-7 record, because of its easy schedule. Case Western Reserve, Swarthmore and Columbia aren't exactly the type of competition any national tournament wants to see its teams playing...
...basketball season can often mean an exciting race for the division title. Such was not the case this year, however, as undefeated Dartmouth ran away with the women's Ivy League crown...
...case involving four protesters who set a flag afire in front of the Seattle Post Office, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein found the Flag Protection Act invalid. Rothstein ruled, "Burning the flag as an expression of political dissent . . . does not jeopardize the freedom which we hold dear." Her decision is headed for the nine Justices: the flag law provides for expedited appeal to the Supreme Court, which could hear the case as early...
...with the child. Morgan, who divorced Foretich shortly before Hilary was born, accused her former spouse of sexually abusing their daughter, then two, in 1985. Although several child-abuse experts testified that Hilary had been molested, other experts disagreed. Judge Herbert Dixon ruled that Morgan had not proved her case and ordered her to jail for refusing to divulge Hilary's location. Not until last September, when George Bush signed a law limiting jail terms for civil contempt in Washington child-custody cases, was Morgan set free...
Foretich, who vehemently denied Morgan's allegations and countercharged that she was mentally ill, offered a $50,000 reward for information on Hilary's whereabouts. The child was traced to Christchurch after the BBC television show Kilroy aired a documentary about the case. Among those who watched the program was a teacher at Beechford College, a girls' prep school in Plymouth, England, who informed the show's producer, Di Burgess, that Hilary had been a student there. The school's headmistress, Pat Holdness, told the London Times that Hilary's grandparents enrolled her in 1987 under the name Ellen Morgan...