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Robinson was with the Rams for nine years, the longest tenure of any head coach in franchise history. He set franchise highs for games coached--it will be 153 after Sunday night--and victories. His overall record with the team...
...Locked Door. Thomas Sutherland taught him French; he taught the others the sign alphabet for the deaf so they could communicate when they were not allowed to speak. It was Anderson who made the tinfoil chess pieces, the Scrabble games, the Monopoly set. In a sense, as the longest held and best known, Anderson had become a symbol for all the captives, for the 17 Americans who were taken -- the three who died, the 13 others who have retrieved their freedom one by one, including Joseph Cicippio and Alann Steen, who finally saw daylight last week...
Joyce's run set-up a 42-yard field goal by Mark Hall, his second longest of the season, which put Harvard ahead 13-10 at the half...
...southland people get Pulitzer prizewinning news from the Los Angeles Times. San Franciscans rely on the clubhouse newspaper, the Chronicle ("comical" to locals), whose existence depends almost solely on Herb Caen, 75, America's longest-running columnist (circa 1938), and whose chief function is the nurturing of San Francisco's insatiable narcissism. The Chron's competitor, Hearst's Examiner, is hardly better, specializing in the scandalous activities of local politicians...
...candidacy, Douglas Wilder says, with unaccustomed modesty, is the "longest of long shots." Democratic Party leaders, in unaccustomed consensus, whisper, At least Wilder's got that right. Granted, the Virginian wrote history in bold script two years ago by becoming the nation's first black elected Governor. Certainly he set a record for brass when he quickly seduced the Great Mentioner -- that Ozlike creature manipulated by pundits and political junkies that pronounces instant presidential prospects -- and challenged Jesse Jackson's primacy as the country's leading African-American politician. But Wilder for President...