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...like symptoms. He failed to pull off a crucial win against Vincent Yu of Princeton even after taking a commanding lead in the fifth and deciding game. Junior Todd Ostrow also played ill, and although he won his match on Saturday against Penn, he lost in three games to Tom McKay.“We didn’t beat ourselves—we got beaten, and that’s the difference,” coach Satinder Bajwa said of Sunday’s loss. “That’s what you want, these guys stepping...
DIED. FRANKLIN COVER, 77, longtime character actor best known for his role as Tom Willis in The Jeffersons, the white half of TV's first interracial couple; of pneumonia; in Englewood...
DIED. REUVEN FRANK, 85, wry, trailblazing TV news producer; in Englewood, N.J. In a radio-influenced era in which TV news often meant anchors reading headlines, the NBC News president made the most of the new medium, infusing such protgs as Tom Brokaw and Linda Ellerbee with his zeal for compelling storytelling that let pictures shine. Among the Emmy winner's best-known innovations was pairing two anchors in The Huntley-Brinkley Report whose lively pacing, witty asides and hokey sign-off ("Goodnight, David," "Goodnight, Chet") are credited with changing the style of TV news...
...potential G.O.P. presidential candidate. Even more significant is the number of big-name Republican fund raisers who are climbing aboard, suggesting the beginnings of a money operation that other contenders in the party will have difficulty matching. None of McCain's new allies are more impressive than former Congressman Tom Loeffler of Texas, a mega--fund raiser for Bush. Loeffler says he has told McCain he is willing "to be your bottle washer, or I'll fix the flat on the Straight Talk Express bus." While Loeffler notes that he has been "very, very, very close friends" with McCain since...
...wanted to think about that and respond later. Obama rarely plays the role of attack dog for his party. "He's very carefully chosen what assignments he will take," says a Senate Democratic aide. Some Democrats complain that his high-profile alliances with Republicans--such as his joining with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate, to push a bill to monitor Hurricane Katrina recovery spending--smack of a man positioning himself for a presidential run. "He needs to be careful not to look too political and too out for himself," says a Democratic strategist...