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...Georgy Gongadze, whose headless corpse was discovered last November. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets calling for Kuchma to resign, and Kravchenko's departure is seen as a gesture of compromise by the President and an effort to preserve his own hold on power. DIED. MORRIS ("MOE") KOFFMAN, 72, flutist, saxophonist and Canadian jazz icon best known for his catchy flute tune Swinging Shepherd Blues, which went to the top of the pop charts in 1958 and was subsequently recorded by more than 100 artists including Ella Fitzgerald; in Toronto. Over a five-decade career, Koffman released more...
...when the hopping began, the two aliens, sponsored by animal importer Andy Koffman, managed nothing better than a puny 7-ft. 10-in. leap in the finals -- even though one of them jumped twice. Winner of the spirited annual commemoration of Mark Twain's yarn The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: Help Mr. Wizard, a homegrown Concord, Calif., bullfrog who jumped a quite respectable 19 ft. 3 in. The prize for the best alibi went to Koffman, who insisted that his big frogs, accustomed to the equatorial tropics, just got cold feet. Said he: "They're not used...
...Maybe you understand frogs and maybe you don't understand 'em," says Smiley in Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. "Maybe you've had experience and maybe you ain't only an amature, as it were." Seattle animal importer Andy Koffman ain't no amateur. In 1986, while visiting the African nation of Cameroon, Koffman watched a 10-lb. Goliath frog leap 30 ft. across a river, and jumped to a conclusion. "The first thing I thought was, 'Wouldn't it be fun to win the Calaveras contest?' " recalls Koffman...
Figuring that the Goliaths could easily shatter the world frog-jumping record of 21 ft. 5 3/4 in. (set in three hops in 1986 by Rosie the Ribbiter, a 1-lb. bullfrog), Koffman entered three of them in this May's 62nd annual Jumping Frog Jubilee at Angels Camp, Calif., site of Twain's tale. Though the California department of fish and game temporarily barred the superfrogs from the state as "undesirable," Koffman will try to convince the bureaucrats that the Goliaths pose no danger -- except perhaps to the pip-squeak American competitors in the Calaveras jump...
...Stanley-Clark (H) d. Sober-Koffman...