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...that same game, on fourth and 30, White fumbled the ball and it was picked up by an offensive lineman who, damn the torpedoes, lumbered full speed ahead. I had delusions of "The Longest Yard" and Dean Steinkuhler in mind, but we turned the ball over on downs...
...longest jury trial in U.S. history -- a 44-month marathon -- finally ended last week in Belleville, Ill. The long-suffering twelve-member circuit court jury found Monsanto Co. guilty of failing to warn the town of Sturgeon, Mo., about the risk of a 1979 spill containing the toxic chemical dioxin. The jury ordered the chemical company to pay $16.2 million in damages, then left the courthouse to celebrate with Judge Richard Goldenhersh over margaritas and daiquiris at a nearby Mexican restaurant. Monsanto, meanwhile, announced that it will appeal...
...Harvard record for longest run from scrimmage was set by Dick Clasby in a game against Washington of St. Louis in 1952. The 10th longest is held by John McCluskey, who sprinted 82 yards against Massachusetts...
...source material is the longest epic of world literature, a 100,000- stanza poem about seven times the combined length of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Like those works, the Mahabharata is a glorious welter of incident and digression, evoking not just a central story of ruinous war but an array of myths and human archetypes and an animal world aquiver with magic. It would be hard to overstate its role as a wellspring of Indian culture. Brook, however, was drawn to its transcending themes: man's joyous awakening to nature and love and duty, the menacing lures of vanity...
Bork's five days in the witness chair marked the longest interrogation any nominee has had to endure since Congress began holding Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1939, and he handled himself with considerable grace ^ under pressure. On Saturday, the last day of his testimony, Bork talked about how serving on the high court would be an "intellectual feast," and how he wanted to leave a "reputation as a judge who understood constitutional governance." There was one moment, however, when the strain seemed to affect him. After Senator Leahy took the judge to task for never doing pro bono work...