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...then, in a display reminiscent of the interrogation scenes in so many movies, the Columbia Daily Spectator writers would grill Tellier on every aspect of the Lions’ failure. The 2000 game was the worst. Tellier seemed a very likeable guy—in a Peter-Falk-as-Columbo kind of way—and the Spec raked him over the coals for some 15 minutes, asking question after question to which there really was no answer...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: Lion Coach Out Like a Lamb | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...state was headed, McBride quit his post as managing partner of Holland & Knight, which he had built into the fifth largest law firm in the U.S. (his wife was once head of Bank of America in Florida), and launched his long-shot bid for Governor. McBride dresses like Columbo and campaigns like the late Governor Lawton Chiles, a Democrat who appealed to Republicans by walking the state and calling himself a cracker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kid Brother Gets in Trouble | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...state was headed, McBride quit his post as managing partner of Holland & Knight, which he had built into the fifth largest law firm in the U.S. (his wife was once head of Bank of America in Florida), and launched his long-shot bid for Governor. McBride dresses like Columbo and campaigns like the late Governor Lawton Chiles, a Democrat who appealed to Republicans by walking the state and calling himself a cracker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kid Brother Gets in Trouble | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...crime dramas are multiplying this season. Not all are as cuddly as Columbo, but the trend is a familiar one, dating back at least as far as TIME's 1973 cover on the profusion of COP SHOWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 29 Years Ago In TIME | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...Watch reruns of “Columbo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Ways to Celebrate Columbus Day | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

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