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...widow, Coretta Scott King, spoke in his place as the first non-Harvard Class Day speaker, Arnold says...

Author: By Hoon-jung Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class Day Grows Over the Years | 6/3/1998 | See Source »

...There is a challenge associated with most jobs, and for mine, it's travel," Brown says. "Family is very important to me, and I have a 17-year-old daughter and a mother who's a widow. I could get a home in Los Angeles [the home of Fox Sports], but I have roots back East. The job is so rewarding and stimulating that it's worth...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: James Brown Balances Love of Sports With Education, Family | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

...current claimant to the title of Black Widow is trying to lure more men into her web, by using the Web -- from prison, no less. Jill Coit, who has been married 11 times to 9 men and is currently serving a life sentence without parole for murdering one of them, posted an ad online offering herself for marriage to men looking for U.S. citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Black Widow's Web | 5/26/1998 | See Source »

...have to give the Black Widow credit for perseverance -- not only is her pitch to bachelor No. 10 illegal on its face, violating as it does a law against marriage for the sole purpose of citizenship, but Coit apparently also managed to have someone on the outside post it for her, since she has no online access in prison. The Immigration and Naturalization Service was notified about the posting, on cyberspace-inmates.com, and it was removed. Coit was one of two Black Widows in the American penal system until Judy Buenoano's execution in a Florida electric chair last March unified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Black Widow's Web | 5/26/1998 | See Source »

Tuesday night's one-hour vigil -- led by Cardinal Roger Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles -- was private and said to be very emotional. More than 400 people attended. Sinatra's widow, Barbara, was comforted by her son, New York attorney Robert Marx. A medley of Sinatra songs was played, a choir sang and there were reminiscences by Sinatra's daughter Nancy and granddaughter Amanda. Tony Bennett also spoke before the rosary was recited. Choir member Chris Green quoted Bennett as saying of Sinatra: "We all fell in love, fell out of love, and fell in love again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sinatra Services Commence | 5/20/1998 | See Source »

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