| Tippett hopes election is omen for Pats
Former New England linebacker Andre Tippett hopes his election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame will be a good omen for the Patriots on Sunday.
As New England's executive director of community affairs, Tippett had plenty of support from the Patriots' Super Bowl traveling party as he waited to learn whether he was headed to Canton.
''Everybody, from Day 1 when we got here, they were like, 'Hey, we're looking to do something special -- you on Saturday and us on Sunday,''' Tippett said on Saturday. ''It couldn't have happened at a greater time.''
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This Week in Pac-10 Softball
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'Dinnertime Bandit' tells of life on lam
SUFFIELD — Alan Golder led a charmed life as a fugitive, strolling the markets and museums of Paris where he lived with a view of the Eiffel Tower. The man who bragged of being a top burglar traveled the continent for years, blending in with his blond hair and fine suits.But after nine years on the run Golder, who police call the "Dinnertime Bandit" finally is locked up at a noisy U.S. prison. "I was living so good over there," Golder told The Associated Press in an interview at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, his first since he was extradited. "My heart aches when I lay in bed and think of Paris."Golder was arrested in 2006 in Belgium and extradited in November back to Connecticut, where he pleaded not guilty to nearly 40 felony counts, including burglary, larceny, robbery and kidnapping, that could keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.Police say he burglarized Connecticut's wealthiest residents by scaling mansion walls wearing a black "ninja"-type suit and hood, slipping through second-floor windows during dinnertime while alarms were off and stealing precious jewels.Seated in a small room while wearing a yellow prison jump suit and plain white sneakers, the 52-year-old Golder described how he began his life of crime in New York, burglarized the homes of celebrities such as Johnny Carson and Glen Campbell, turned on his Mob-connected associates and led a stealth life in Europe.
Edmonds was the first African-American to earn a monogram at Notre ...
Wayne Edmonds waited for the backlash, for the inevitable reminders of racism to kick in. Maybe all those people back home were right. Maybe Notre Dame was no place for a black man. There had been no incidents before this day, but Edmonds sensed what was coming when Fighting Irish coach Frank Leahy approached him during a practice in 1953. "I want you to run with the backs," Leahy told Edmonds. Offensive line coach Bob McBride chimed in: "I want you to be first, too." .
New College Out of Money: Teachers Unpaid, Not Teaching (12)
I wanted to go into a public agency and work with people who don't have funds to go to a private practitioner, and give them the respect and support that someone paying $200 per hour would elicit," says the 26-year-old, who was close to completing her master's in psychology when San Francisco's New College of California began to financially implode last fall. School was supposed to start more than a month ago. Teachers haven't been paid for nearly four months. Classes are now postponed indefinitely, with the possibility that the college may soon cease to exist. New College, a self-styled progressive school begun in 1971, is deep in a bizarre meltdown that is creating a wake of human suffering. Students dependent upon financial aid are seeing their aspirations dashed. Teachers are leading classes and helping students, but without getting paid.
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