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DIED. GNASSINGBE EYADEMA, 69, President of Togo; of a heart attack; in Piya, Togo. A former army colonel who came to power in a military coup in 1967, he was Africa's longest-serving ruler. With the threat of turmoil in the wake of his sudden death, Togo's military high command named his son Faure Eyadema to succeed...
...National Football Conference. It is the Patriots who have answered the American Football Conference’s rigorous challenge in pounding the Indianapolis Colts and the vaunted Manning, 20-3, and creaming the Steelers 41-27—payback for their destruction of the Patriots’ NFL-longest 21-game winning streak...
...novel is narrated by Bertie Krohn, a frustrated actor languishing in the shadow of his famous father Perry, who created Starwatch: The Navigators, "TV's longest-running syndicated space opera," i.e., Star Trek by any other name. Bertie's a bright, affable fellow, but every little success he has feels cheapened in comparison with his dad's overpowering accomplishments...
...luck. By establishing a stable macroeconomic policy framework, by maintaining tight control of public expenditure in the first Blair government, and by cutting free from political interference the Bank of England's capacity to change interest rates, Brown deserves his place among the Treasury immortals. He is already the longest-serving Chancellor since the 1820s; of those who have held his office in the modern age, only the great Victorian William Ewart Gladstone spent more time in the Treasury's corridors. Gladstone, of course, went on to be as great a Prime Minister as he was a Chancellor, and Brown...
...sneakiest fables: a boxing tale that screenwriter Paul Haggis based on the stories of F.X. Toole, a former ringside "cut man." That was the trade of Frankie Dunn (Eastwood), who with his pal Eddie (Morgan Freeman) now runs a gym for boxing hopefuls, most without a hope. The longest shot is Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank). She hasn't a prayer, or a clue, but she's determined to be the champ and ... can you guess what happens...