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...Jack Kevorkian showed up at the Oakland County (Mich.) Courthouse in homemade stocks and a ball and chain. "His goal is to make the evening news, and this should do it. This is completely consistent with his crusade," says TIME's Nancy Gibbs. Kevorkian wore a sign which read in the front "Common law of Middle Ages. What's next, the Inquisition?" and on the back "Think this is a circus? You're right. But blame the seven Supreme Court jesters." Kevorkian shed the signs before entering the courthouse, where he stood silent as he was arraigned on two counts...
Pearl Stewart became the first black woman editor of a major newspaper in 1992, when she took the helm of the Oakland Tribune in California...
Then there was California. In mid-August, Joe Dimas, a controller at the Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center in Fremont, watched his radar screen go blank. Then the backup failed. And his radio died. "This was the scariest thing I've ever seen," says Dimas, who with his colleagues was guiding 295 planes. A 20-year-old generator and its replacement had blown. During the 35-min. blackout, a United Airlines Boeing 757 nearly collided with an Alaska Airlines MD-80. Hundreds of flights were grounded...
Indeed, the luxury box--or sky box, club suite, call it what you will--is such a primary temptation that both National Football League franchises in the Los Angeles area, the Raiders and the Rams, are leaving the second-largest TV market. Raiders' owner Al Davis, who abandoned Oakland, California, in 1982 after the Los Angeles Coliseum promised sky boxes but never delivered them, will be returning to the Bay Area now that the Oakland Coliseum is increasing its luxury-suite total from 58 to 175. With the Raiders getting 100% of the revenue from the sale of those suites...
...OAKLAND Al Davis says he's moving the Raiders back from...