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...foot the bill for nationals, each team member pays dues, and the team raises money through sponsors, alumnae, and sales of Harvard-Yale t-shirts. The team also receives grants from the Undergraduate Council and the Ann Radcliffe Trust...
...opinions he generally answers the majority point by point and lays out a narrow interpretation of the ruling, which can be helpful to those who later challenge it. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor caught him at it in a case earlier this year and wrote with annoyance in a foot note, "Justice Brennan not only distorts the reasoning and holding of our decision but, worse, invites trial courts and prosecutors to do the same...
...woman playwright, Olympe de Gouges, came down firmly on both sides of the French Revolution, and that Crystal Eastman founded the American Civil Liberties Union but got no credit for it. No male abuse of females goes unchronicled, and to give the author her due, the long litany, from foot binding to burning for witchcraft, has a sobering effect. French, an academic who has taught English at Harvard, Hofstra and Holy Cross, seems incapable of nuance. The history of fatherhood, she believes, is the history of tyranny, and dialogue is impossible in corporations and other hierarchical institutions...
Naked of walls and roof, the frame of foot-thick oak timbers has the precise, angular grace of a Victorian railway bridge. It is bound by hand-hewn pegs to a 20-ft. by 30-ft. rectangle. Inside this architectonic web freshly spun along the rear of the Bakers' blueberry-shingled farm house, Babcock, 50, in red plaid shirt and worn, blue work pants, ministers to a most ungraceful tangle of rope and wood...
Healy estimated that, if approved, the 96,000 square-foot police station would be ready for business in 2007 or 2008 at the earliest...