Word: tomming
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...made the plays when we had to make them," Jaguars coach Tom Coughlin said. "It's continuation of what's been happening all year long. We find...
...DIED. TOM BRADLEY, 80, quietly commanding five-term former mayor of the nation's second largest city; in Los Angeles. First elected in 1973, Bradley, a former police officer, became Los Angeles' first black mayor, triumphing with such projects as the 1984 Olympic Games but faltering in the aftermath of the 1992 riots (see Eulogy, below...
California has lost a state treasure, and I have lost a mentor and friend. As mayor of Los Angeles, TOM BRADLEY was a healer of social divisions and a visionary who shepherded the transformation of an unruly town into a great city. The grandson of slaves, the son of Texas sharecroppers, he broke through racial barriers because there was simply no surrender in him. He bore the abuse that was the price of his success with a majestic dignity that even his most vicious detractors could never crack. Although he never courted the press, and was often criticized...
Jimmy Carter may want to watch his back. The American racking up the most humanitarian interventions these days is TOM CRUISE, who extended his string of rescue missions last week by aiding a mugging victim in London. Hearing cries for help, Cruise, emboldened no doubt by the presence of his bodyguards, ran to assist a woman being robbed of her jewelry. Cruise is no neophyte knight in Armani armor. At a 1996 premiere of Mission: Impossible he lifted two boys over a barricade to prevent them from being crushed. A few months later, while sailing in the Mediterranean, he rescued...
...Tom Cover, professor, Stanford: Ted Williams would have generated 19.62 runs per game in 1941 if he had batted in all nine places in the lineup. Babe Ruth would have generated 19.13 runs per game in 1923, but no modern player is close. McGwire is consistently around 13, and Sosa is 8.3 this year...