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...very, very good leader," says Coit Blacker, deputy director of Stanford's Institute for International Studies. "She's very clear, she's very forceful, she sets her priorities clearly. She's tough, fair-minded and disciplined...
...current claimant to the title of Black Widow is trying to lure more men into her web, by using the Web -- from prison, no less. Jill Coit, who has been married 11 times to 9 men and is currently serving a life sentence without parole for murdering one of them, posted an ad online offering herself for marriage to men looking for U.S. citizenship...
...have to give the Black Widow credit for perseverance -- not only is her pitch to bachelor No. 10 illegal on its face, violating as it does a law against marriage for the sole purpose of citizenship, but Coit apparently also managed to have someone on the outside post it for her, since she has no online access in prison. The Immigration and Naturalization Service was notified about the posting, on cyberspace-inmates.com, and it was removed. Coit was one of two Black Widows in the American penal system until Judy Buenoano's execution in a Florida electric chair last March unified...
...Bash. The convention's biggest party will be Monday night, when 10,000 delegates, alternates and guests will move directly from the official proceedings to Pier 45, near Fisherman's Wharf, for an extravaganza dubbed "Oh, What a Night." Amid miniature replicas of Telegraph Hill's Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Park's Japanese tea garden, Ghirardelli Square and 13 other San Francisco landmarks, conventioneers will wander among open bars and mountains of ethnic foodstuffs from 9 p.m. to midnight in an area the size of four football fields. The $250,000 fandango, paid...
Though it operated in the shadow of the more prestigious New York City papers, the News sometimes rivaled them in its heyday. In 1932 its city editor, Henry Coit, was the first to report that Charles Lindbergh had paid a ransom to the kidnaper of his son. News Correspondent Cecil I. Dorrian was the first woman to file dispatches from the front lines in World War I. Correspondent Arthur J. Sinnott had such a pipeline to President Woodrow Wilson that the capital press corps formally protested the long string of major exclusives. The paper's coverage of state...