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...delegate! I'm supposed to be in there!" That fruitless plea was one of many being heard this week at the doors to the United Center as thousands of delegates, Democratic staff and members of the press struggle to enter the hall amid tight but amateurishly disorganized security. Michael Jordan, whose Bulls play in the Center, never saw it like this. To prevent terrorist attacks, the Secret Service has installed concrete barriers blocks away from the entrances, creating a long ragged line of delegates and reporters hauling cameras, radios, telephones and computers toward the House That Jordan Built. Once there...
...catering to the networks, which had scheduled just one hour of coverage on most nights). And the networks, reluctant to air a four-night campaign commercial, tried to show as little of the official proceedings as possible. Yet finding any real news to cover--or, indeed, anything unplanned--proved fruitless...
Perhaps the most interesting story of the three is Dow's. A longtime Republican who first voted in 1928 for Herbert Hoover, Dow has spent his life waging what he described as fruitless battles for conservatism in Cambridge...
EAST MORICHES, N.Y.: After three days of fruitless searches for bodies and major parts of the TWA plane wreckage, search crews found remains of four people and major sections of the plane. The first word of the discovery came Monday afternoon from New York Governor George Pataki during a memorial service for families of the victims near the Long Island seashore. NTSB Vice Chairman Robert Francis confirmed that the bodies and a trail of wreckage were found about approximately nine miles from the shore in a three-by-four-mile area. While Francis called Monday's discovery "a major find...
...associate at the Rose firm who specialized in securities law, and a corporate partner at Rose, David Knight, hoping to land Madison business, had lunch in the spring of 1985 with John Latham, whom McDougal had hired as Madison Guaranty's chief executive officer. But the lunch proved fruitless: Latham said Madison already had outside counsel and didn't plan to hire others...