Word: pittsburgher
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...face it: on paper the Rams are doomed. To call the Pittsburgh Steelers favorites to win Sunday's Super Bowl is like naming the Soviet Union the odds-on choice to cruise over Afghanistan...
Williams, who studied at the University of California at Los Angeles and the Julliard School of Music, has conducted orchestras in London, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and at the Hollywood Bowl. He will conduct the regular Pops season in Symphony Hall at Tanglewood and at the Eplanade on the banks of the Charles
...years of exile, and now a year of adulation and power in his homeland, the Ayatullah has been wholly consistent?and totally unbending. Why not? In his own mind he speaks not for himself but for God, whose precepts never change. Says Richard Cottam of the University of Pittsburgh, one of the few American scholars who have held long conversations with Khomeini: "The trouble in talking to him is that you always run up against a wall called...
...baseball season is over, but a scoreless tie continues between Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and former Baltimore Orioles Owner Jerold Hoffberger. To start the second World Series game between the Birds and the Pittsburgh Pirates, Hoffberger invited Maryland Governor Harry Hughes, an old friend, to throw out the first ball. Kuhn, standing next to the Governor at the toss, was smiling, but his grin was deceptive. Hoffberger's choice violated a rule that all first-ball throwers must be approved by the commissioner, with politicians and movie stars acceptable only in rare circumstances. For disobeying the rule, Hoffberger, who last...