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Manuel Martinez, 40, and his nephew. Domingo Morales Jr., 25, were shot point-blank by Officer Kevin Durkin. The policeman was off-duty in a bar across the street from his Bronx police precinct. Morales and Martinez were about to leave when Durkin suddenly fired five shots from within two feet of the men; Morales was hit once in the face and Martinez twice in the back. As Durkin's fellow officers removed the gun from his hand, he stood over the bodies, muttering. "I'm on the job. I got them. They're coming...
...Johnson's shirt at his waist. Johnson is supposed to have answered, "That's a gun." According to Harms, "The officer placed his left hand on the gun and with his right hand drew his own revolver." Johnson then "made a sudden move." Alvarez fired his .38 point-blank into Johnson's face. The young man lay in a coma for 24 hours, then died...
...NOTEBOOK The win levels the Crimson's Ivy League mark at 1-1, with a less in-spring overall record of 2-4-0...Goalkeeper Phil Coogan came through with two point-blank saves that kept Harvard in the lead at crucial moments in the match...The booters travel to Hanover next Saturday to face Dartmouth. The Big Green always get particularly motivated to play against Harvard, and the matches have usually been more physical than skillful...
...classes of its own. Radcliffe always served as the mechanism through which women could receive a Harvard education. Now that women are admitted with men, enrolled with men, and housed with men, the obvious question is what role remains for Radcliffe. Opinions range from author Diana Trilling '25's point-blank "Radcliffe is dead," to the Radcliffe Guide's assertion that "Radcliffe has a specified role in the development of the administrative policy affecting undergraduates." According to the 1977 Agreement, the most recent document governing the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship. Radcliffe pays Harvard College to educate its students leaving control...
...they always do, the loathesome of Lynah tied a live chicken to the Harvard goal posts. As usual, it was not funny... Early in the third period, the Big Red's Len Jankowski hit the post behind Lau, and only a few minutes later the Crimson netminder deflected a point-blank bid by Kerling...Scott Fusco now has ten goals on the year, to lead the team... Harvard S. Cornell 4 (OT) at Ithaca, N.Y. Harvard 2 1 1 1-5 Cornell...