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...players and team owners of the National Basketball Association (NBA) finally reached an agreement to end what had been by far the longest labor dispute in league history...
...snapped UConn's 54-game home win streak, the longest in the nation...
Sometimes just being there assures success. Janet Reno became the nation's second-longest-serving attorney general on Monday, logging in five years and 10 months and coming in behind only William Wirt, who put in 11 years and three months in the administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. "I don't know that she's become the second-longest-serving atorney general because she's been the second most distinguished," says TIME writer Adam Cohen. She's survived "mostly because she has been the beneficiary of the fact that it has been too awkward for Clinton...
Take, for example, Quincy House, which has been experimenting with universal access since late-October, the longest time period for any House...
...Monday in January, five days into the longest year of her life, Hillary Rodham Clinton was making her usual rounds. At the Harriet Tubman school in Harlem, third-graders told her they were studying the four values: honesty, caring, respect and responsibility. "Those are really important values," Mrs. Clinton said. "Boy, that's a big word--responsibility--isn't it?" She went on to visit a literacy program before heading to a 50th anniversary gala for unicef. She was talking about the things she has always cared about, normally to rooms full of earnest activists and an indifferent camera...