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...addition to the impressive slew of team awards the Crimson earned this season, many of the racquetwomen also garnered individual honors...
ALONG WITH THE NEWS that Harvard University Police are facing a $2 million lawsuit for detaining and searching eight Black teenagers without sufficient cause comes a slew of questions. Why were the youths stopped if they didn't match the description of the suspect the police were searching for? Why, if the youths are telling the truth, weren't they told why they were being stopped? Why did Cambridge police stand by during the 1984 incident and watch Harvard police question the youths? What, by the way, constitutes sufficient cause to stop youths strolling through the Square...
Forty million dollars and a slew of protests later, the ABC television miniseries, "Amerika," finally reached its conclusion this weekend...
...many things distinguish Erving, starting with the fact that he returned to college to get his degree and a slew of honorary doctorates besides. He earned them with a style of living, not playing. New York recalls the two A.B.A. titles he celebrated with the Nets, but Mississippi's Necaise Crossing remembers that he came to Wendell Ladner's funeral. The Net forward Ladner died in an off-season plane crash. He was a Li'l Abner from a piney-woods logging town, neither of them very easy for a black man to reach. But Erving got to Ladner...
Even more important, though, was the caliber of the candidates on each side. Pericles didn't run on the Democratic ticket, but the Democrats did field a solid slate. The Republican trenches, on the other hand, were filled by a bunch of losers. In 1980 a whole slew of hacks slid into the Senate on Reagan's coattails, and on very slim majorities. Their time was up in 1986. The Gipper couldn't win this one for them, and they were recalled like so many defective Fords...