Time Line

Darby Crash (1958-80) was a lightning bolt in leather, a poet and musician with a taste for self-promotion and self-mutilation. While he never had the fame or musical influence of, say, Jim Morrison or Kurt Cobain, for a few years during the Jimmy Carter administration, Crash (born Jan-Paul Beahm) was the front man of the Germs. The heroin-fueled onstage chaos of these punk rockers made them cult figures in the emerging Los Angeles new wave scene. Rejected by his parents and ejected from high school, Crash became a Nietzsche-quoting anarchist.

A cabdriver who picked up a Duke University lacrosse player on the night the player is accused of raping a stripper appeared yesterday to reinforce a time line the defense says supports his innocence. Reade Seligmann of Essex Fells, N.J., and fellow sophomore lacrosse player Collin Finnerty, of Garden City, N.Y., are charged with first-degree rape, sexual assault and kidnapping. The accuser, a 27-year-old black student from a nearby college in Durham, N.C., told police she was attacked by three white men at a house where she and another woman were hired to dance at a March 13 lacrosse team party.

With the Oakland Athletics at Veterans Stadium for a three-game series that starts tonight, the Phillies held a news conference yesterday and announced that, when their new stadium is finished, they will not forget the A's parents: The Philadelphia Athletics. Tonight's game marks the first time the A's, who played in Philadelphia from 1901 to 1954, and the Phillies have faced each other in the regular season. The A's, with Connie Mack as their manager and owner, had dynasties (1910-14 and 1929-31)

More than 150 residents packed the Tredyffrin/Easttown school board meeting this week to object to proposed staff and program cuts totaling $1.4 million, to increasing class size and to the charging of activity fees under the 1991-92 school year. At Monday's meeting, residents were not the only angry participants. Several board members reacted with hostility to the distribution of a board time line for budget decisions. "Who decided this time line?" asked board member Susan Ciocco.

The pristine meadows, wetlands and rolling hills of the Haverford State Hospital site have made residents' minds soar and developers salivate since the state closed the hospital in 1998. In eight months, its fate is to finally be decided. On June 11, the township Board of Commissioners will vote to accept a master plan for the site, according to a time line approved Tuesday by Gary Crowell, secretary of the state Department of General Services, which owns the land. A fast track leads to the final disposition of the land, according to the time line.

David A. Stockman's rise and fall give new meaning to the term "trickle down" - a phrase associated with the Reagan-era tax-cut policy that Stockman once championed. The former White House budget director now stands accused of fraud in the financial collapse of auto-parts supplier Collins & Aikman Corp. He says he did nothing wrong. The Web fills in history on Stockman and the times that made his name a household word. Reagan's life. In 1981, Stockman enters this PBS time line of the life of Ronald Reagan and the budget-whacking axman taking aim at Social Security (which Reagan had vowed not to cut)

Six larger-than-life paintings, which already have attracted national attention, were unveiled yesterday evening in a formal ceremony at the Honorable Francis J. Catania Law Library. "My basic idea was to paint something I would like to see on the wall, and I did that," said Dean Hartung, 38, of Philadelphia's Mount Airy section. "I really love it. " The portraits, paid for through donations, were part of a two-year project proposed by the county's judicial bicentennial committee in 1990, when the county celebrated the founding of its court system.

Scott Rolen walked into the visiting clubhouse at Comerica Park yesterday afternoon and found his locker right next to the door. No, the clubhouse attendant wasn't trying to send Rolen a message. But the positioning of his locker was still quite amusing, and possibly appropriate because, according to several major-league baseball sources, the Phillies have stepped up their efforts to trade the unhappy third baseman in recent days. General manager Ed Wade, as he does with all potential trades, would not comment on the Rolen situation yesterday.

The members of the Warminster Economic Development Commission say they are angry at the Navy for withholding information about the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC). They want residents to start a letter-writing campaign to politicians, including the President. The commission, which was formed 15 months ago to gather information for residents about the 1995-96 transfer of the NAWC in Warminster to southern Maryland, said its efforts have been frustrated at every turn by the Navy and other federal agencies.

Hitler's mustache was itchy. But that was a trifling note in Tom Weise's serious attempt to portray an important "bad guy" to remember. History was alive last week as sixth graders at Harrison Elementary School donned costumes and the identities of 147 famous figures in a living time line. Families filed into the school auditorium to meet heroes, villains and celebrities - from Cleopatra (Sherry Hignutt) in white and gold to Shirley Temple (Lauren Black) in pink baby-doll dress and short, red curls.

1992: Steven Brigham, a few years out of medical school, voluntarily forfeits his Pennsylvania medical license to end an investigation into his Wyomissing clinic. The landlord had successfully sued him for concealing his plans to perform abortions. 1994: New York state takes Brigham's license for botching late-term abortions, one begun in Voorhees, calling him "undertrained" with "submarginal abilities. " 1995: Florida revokes Brigham's license based on New York's action.

U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., 46, came under fire after a lewd photo appeared on his Twitter account last month. Here are some key dates in the scandal. May 27: A photo showing the bulging crotch of a man in his underwear appears briefly on Weiner's Twitter account. Blogger Andrew Breitbart is first to report the image. May 30: Weiner rebuts that a hacker got control of his social-networking account. "Look, this is a prank and not a terribly creative one," Weiner says.

HONOLULU - Kickers are in an ironic situation as it is. They spend most of the football game standing around on the sideline, except for the few seconds on the field when they often decide the fate of their team. Dichotomy reaches a new level this week for David Akers. The veteran Eagles kicker finds himself in Hawaii for tomorrow's Pro Bowl, being rewarded for another fine season . . . but one that ended ingloriously for him, and with his future in Philadelphia up in the air. Akers - who missed 41- and 34-yard field goals in the Eagles' 21-16 wild-card playoff loss to the Packers - knows success as an NFL placekicker requires a short memory.

On Thursday morning, less than 24 hours after the season's final game, the 76ers fired coach Eddie Jordan. In a news conference at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Sixers president and general manager Ed Stefanski announced that he had "relieved" Jordan of his coaching duties. Jordan was not made available for comment. The Sixers, 27-55, finished their disastrous season, Jordan's first as coach, on Wednesday night with a loss to the Magic in Orlando. "Obviously, what I thought would happen did not occur and the decision was not a right one," Stefanski said.

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Of the 97 players in the field this week, 16 own green jackets. Nine are Champions Tour-eligible. Of the five who have won multiple Masters, only Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are under 50. Of Lefty's three majors, two came in April. But the last one happened in 2006. Two months later he would double-bogey the last hole of the U.S. Open to lose by one. The last 2 years he has finished fifth here. And last June, he was runner-up in the Open for a record-breaking fifth time.

Brad Lidge and J.C. Romero are making progress in their rehabilitation from off-season surgery. Both Phillies relievers said they hope to be ready for opening day. But both acknowledged it's a slow process. "I'm just trying to be ready for when the season starts," Romero said. "That's my time line. But I have to be realistic. I know I'm a little behind. " Yesterday, Romero threw off a mound for the first time this spring. He threw 23 fastballs and said he felt comfortable in his rehab from flexor tendon surgery on his left arm. Lidge, who is slightly ahead of Romero in his recovery, threw 35 pitches off the mound in his third bullpen session.

_ October 1981. Profiled in an Inquirer article for starting a job-training program for young people and operating an alternative school for children during what becomes a 50-day city teacher's strike. _ 1986. Arrested and charged with rape. He is acquitted. _ 1991. Convicted of armed robbery of a gas station and sentenced to seven to 23 months in prison. _ January 2001 . Arrested for indecent assault in a case involving a 16-year-old girl, stemming from a September 2000 incident.

With a coy smile, 76ers coach Eddie Jordan said it would take months - at least until Thanksgiving - before you'd see some rhythm within his systems. In those late-summer exchanges, weeks before training camp had even begun, it was difficult to tell if Jordan was offering the worst-case scenario or if he truly believed his timeline. Now that turkey and pumpkin pie are around the corner, and with the Sixers chilling around .500 with most of their wins against the NBA's worst, it's become darn clear that Jordan was never yanking our chains: We should have believed his timeline.

A quick look at Shawn Andrews' Eagles career: April 24, 2004: Drafted by the Eagles in the first round, 16th overall. Sept. 12, 2004: Started his first game against the Giants but fractured his fibula and was lost for the season. 2005 season: Started all 16 games and was a Pro Bowl alternate. 2006 season: Started all 16 games and was named to the Pro Bowl. Injured his neck midway through the playoff game loss to New Orleans. 2007 season: Started 15 games and was named to the Pro Bowl.

1994 - Bally's obtains an option to purchase 21 riverfront acres on Christopher Columbus Boulevard at Reed Street. Ed Rendell is mayor of Philadelphia and speculation spreads that riverboat gambling will be approved by the state. 2005 - Bally's, which has become Caesar's Entertainment, pays $45 million on top of a previous $20 million in option payments for the land. Rendell, now governor, has successfully pushed for the legalization of slot-machine gambling. Caesar's is then absorbed by Harrah's Entertainment, which has a casino project in the works for Chester, Delaware County.