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DIED. CHARLIE FINLEY, 77, over-the-top owner of baseball's Kansas City and Oakland A's; known for innovations such as the designated hitter, nighttime World Series games and colored uniforms; of heart and vascular disease; in Chicago...
DIED. BROWNIE MCGHEE, 80, guitarist-singer; in Oakland, California. McGhee and harmonica player Sonny Terry brought the folk-flavored blues of the Carolina Piedmont to the world, influencing generations of rockers, folkies and bluesmen...
...Diego's symphony is far from the first to capitulate to low and ever-graying attendance. In the last 10 years, orchestras in New Orleans, Oakland and Denver have also gone under, reappearing in less powerful forms. The cities may vary, but the litany remains the same: little financial support from audiences who say they have better things...
...salary as a Head Start teaching assistant in Los Angeles is too low for her to pay taxes, making her ineligible for the per-child credit. With the EITC she got last year, "I caught up on a furniture payment, visited my grandmother in Oakland, bought a bed instead of putting it on credit, and saved a little...
...them. The lucky eight who have qualified are: Pitssburgh, Green Bay, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia and Detroit in the NFC; and Buffalo and Kansas City in the AFC. The key games are in the AFC, with Seattle (8-7) at Kansas City (11-2), Denver (7-8) at Oakland (8-7), and Miami (8-7) at St. Louis. In the NFC, three teams are in the hunt for the final two spots. Games to watch: Philadelphia (10-5) at Chicago (8-7), Minnesota (8-7) at Cincinnatti (6-9) and San Francisco (11-4) at Atlanta (8-7). Chicago...