Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...driving hail of critical briefs--that must be filed immediately on behalf of Vice President Al Gore. Boies' celebrated Lands' End suit remains neatly buttoned; he wears his omnipresent black running shoes, one crossed over the other. He's not in a quiet conference room at one of the local law offices placed at his disposal but in a Tallahassee, Fla., hotel lobby. As he writes, Boies turns to today's edition of the tag-along journalist who always seems to be hovering nearby and asks, "How do you spell 'auspices...
Last Saturday, before a rowdy crowd at Lavietes Pavilion, sophomore Pat Harvey and the Crimson gave local basketball fans another memorable ending reminiscent of Bird and the Celtics of yesteryear...
...delay the counting for just as long as Beck could string sentences together. Beck, the Bush team's lead trial lawyer, sensibly pushed Lewis to define the terms of the hand count--dimples, no; hanging chads, yes? But the judge declined, leaving the issue to the discretion of the local counters, and the Bush lawyers to complain, with justification, that this was a recount without standards. Beck also deserves credit for adding another fine term to the Election 2000 lexicon. He repeatedly objected to a manual recount in Miami-Dade because of his worries about the "spoliation" of the ballots...
DIED. MARVEL COOKE, 97, pioneering journalist and political activist who in 1950 became the first black woman to write full time for a major white-owned newspaper; in New York City. She created the first local newspaper guild at a black publication, which in 1934 led to one of the first organized-labor victories for African Americans in U.S. history...
Until very recently, German film companies had money to burn, and most of that found its way to California. Last year 12 relatively unknown German film-distribution and production companies tossed their shares out onto the local stock market and reeled in more than $3 billion in IPO capital. They used that war chest to gobble up strategic chunks of the worldwide filmmaking and distribution industry, and many of those chunks are shriveling rapidly. Companies with names like Intertainment and Helkon Media ran rings around established German players like Kirch Media and Bertelsmann, which, perhaps wisely, stayed...