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DIED. GORDON JUMP, 71, TV actor best known as the bumbling boss of a radio station in the 1978-82 sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati and later as the lonely, restless Maytag repairman, replacing Jesse White in one of TV's longest-running ad campaigns; of complications from pulmonary fibrosis; in Los Angeles...
...from Delta Force and the Army Rangers—was airdropped into the city’s volatile Bakara Market neighborhood. Their assignment: to capture two prominent lieutenants of Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. What followed was, as Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden notes, “the longest sustained firefight involving U.S. troops since Vietnam...
...countries expected to watch on TV; the $28 to $35 million the Australian Rugby Union hopes to make from the event; and huge winning bonuses - hundreds of thousands of dollars each - that some players can look forward to. For the fans, the 2003 World Cup will be the longest party ever. The Olympics are crammed into a fortnight; soccer's pinnacle event takes a month. The Rugby World Cup unfolds over six weeks as 20 nations contest 48 Tests in 10 cities. The Nov. 22 final will be held at Telstra Stadium, which the world will recognize as the centerpiece...
While his longest field goal in a game is 44 yards—impressive in its own right—he claims to have kicked a 62 yard field goal in practice...
...teaching elementary school in Brooklyn, NY, where she grew up. “I knew I wanted to learn outside the classroom,” she says, which was what had first prompted her to seek out PBHA as a freshman and dive head-long into two of its longest-running programs. She’s a little more patient now as she fills up her study card with classes unrelated to sociology, content to take advantage of being an undergraduate as long as she can. She’s exploring other avenues, not because she?...