Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reverend William Robinson said that he was informed by Helen Chucko, a receptionist at the agency, that "a person with a rifle with a scope on it had drawn a bead on his wife in his home in Massachusetts and she screamed and hit the floor, and by the time the police got there, the individual had gone...
...philosophy certainly would upset some people," Robinson said. "He's a professor and he digs farther in terms of truth and doesn't take our history in terms of being absolute, and I think that's possibly upset some people...
Brown will be remembered more as the Frank Robinson than the Jackie Robinson of big-league politics--that is, as a star manager instead of a player. Most black leaders make their mark by demanding that blacks get a seat at the table. Brown not only sat at the table, but often sat at its head. He was among the first of a new breed of black Washington insiders with the connections and influence to make things happen for clients as diverse as civil rights leaders and fat-cat corporate executives. Jesse Jackson, for one, describes himself as "a tree...
...Another choice: South Africa's Richard Goldstone, who is stepping down as prosecutor of the U.N. war-crimes tribunal. But the U.N. may for the first time risk selecting someone with the stature of a head of state or government, such as Czech President Vaclav Havel, Irish President Mary Robinson or Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland...
...listen to a word that The Boston Globe has to say--Adonal Foyle might be a good player, but he is not David Robinson (Grancio outplayed Foyle and I have a feeling the Admiral would whoop up on Harvard). Colgate doesn't stand a chance. At the top of the bracket, UConn makes it to a Sweet 16 matchup with under-rated UCLA...