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...from his car, and he happened to be near Robert Kennedy the night of his assassination. All these encounters, and thousands more, he related in a weekly BBC chat series, Letter from America, that mesmerized millions of listeners on five continents and ran for 58 years?the world's longest-running series with a single person as host. When Cooke died last week at 95, the English-speaking world said a melancholy good-night to a consummate reporter and the world's wisest, blithest uncle. ?By Richard Corliss...
...author, war correspondent and pioneer of the New Journalism; in San Francisco. Sack reported from the battlefields of every major U.S. conflict from Korea to Afghanistan. His 33,000-word piece "Oh My God?We Hit a Little Girl," which followed an infantry company in Vietnam, is the longest article ever to appear in Esquire. After interviewing Lieut. William Calley, an officer convicted for the massacre of civilians at My Lai, Sack was indicted on federal felony charges, later dropped, for refusing to surrender his notes to prosecutors...
Nearly midway through the period, the record for longest Hockey East championship already set, Black Bears defenseman Matthew Deschamps sent a wrister screeching towards Gabe Winer’s net and off Murphy’s stick into...
...Crimson received goals from Dylan Reese, Brendan Bernakevitch, Dennis Packard and Ryan Maki but saw its seven-game win streak—its longest in 11 seasons—snapped to finish the year...
Almost everyone agrees that a college education should be available to anyone, regardless of socioeconomic background. But when the federal government sits down to reform the system of grants it gives to colleges for financial aid, schools like Harvard inevitably get hurt. The longest-established college in the country, Harvard stands to lose around $6 million after a federal redistribution of grants recently proposed by the Bush administration. This is because some older New England schools, including Harvard, have profited from a skewed, outdated formula that determines how much federal aid each school gets...