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...HILL, author of the thriller novel Heart-Shaped Box, who revealed after 10 years of writing short stories and an unpublished novel under his pen name that he is the elder son of Stephen King...
...economics and later received a master's in public administration from Harvard. His father, a schoolteacher, helped found the National Action Party (P.A.N.) in 1939, but the party was shut out of power by the dictatorial Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which ruled Mexico from 1929 until 2000. The elder Calderón left the P.A.N. in the 1980s because he felt it had abandoned its Roman Catholic ideals of social justice for a narrower pro-business ideology. Felipe was relatively obscure until 2005, when he upset the P.A.N.'s anointed candidate to win the party's 2006 presidential nomination. He later...
...elder Akpan’s first love, however, was soccer. The Nigerian national team of his youth, nicknamed the ‘Super Eagles,’ had not yet evolved into the World Cup contender of the early ’90s, and so young Nigerian boys cast their eyes west to Brazil, where Péle was capturing the world’s imagination...
...Eduardo D'Aubuisson was the son of ARENA's founder, Roberto D'Aubuisson, who was accused of heading death squads during the 1980s civil war. The elder D'Aubuisson, who died in 1992, was found by a U.N.-backed truth commission to have ordered the 1980 assassination of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero. His son and colleagues were murdered on the 15th anniversary of D'Aubuisson's death from throat cancer...
DIED. Joseph Gallo, 87, who broke away from the family wine business to form his own dairy empire, sparking a lifelong battle with his elder brothers, Ernest and Julio, over the use of the Gallo name; in Livingston, Calif. As a ranch manager for his brothers' wineries, he started a dairy in 1979 with 4,000 cows. Though he lost the fight to use the Gallo name, his Joseph Farms company, which encompasses nearly 13,000 acres, is now one of California's biggest makers of cheddar, Colby and other cheeses...