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DIED. BROTHER ADAM, 98, British beekeeper and Benedictine monk; in Buckfast, England. Sent as a boy of 12 to St. Mary's Abbey in Buckfast, German-born Brother Adam crossbred various bee stocks to produce the celebrated "Buckfast bee," a gentle, disease-resistant, prolific honey-producer. In 1991 the U.S. Department of Agriculture imported Buckfast queens to replace American bee populations killed by a viral epidemic...
...turnaround would be no small task. The German-born Spindler, 53, known as "the Diesel" for his drive, was himself brought in as a miracle worker by Markkula, when Apple's share of the personal-computer market hovered at 9.4%. Now it is just 7.8%. The company was hard hit last year by the arrival of Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, which mimics the look and feel of Apple's Macintosh computers but runs on IBM-compatible machines that are cheaper...
...campaign for the White House. But Washington insiders doubt Bradley will run, mainly for the compelling reasons he cites here when discussing his 1992 decision, arrived at after much agony, not to challenge Bill Clinton for their party's nomination. Bradley, a deeply private man, feared that his German-born wife Ernestine would face unfair questions about her father's role in Hitler's Germany (he served in the air force but had no Nazi ties). Bradley also knew that he was a wooden speaker and, despite a lifetime of achievement, feared deep down "that this small-town boy could...
...DEATH OF COMRADE NICHOLAS Romanov was nasty and brutish. In 1918 the last Czar of Russia was a prisoner of the Ural Regional Soviet in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg. With him were his German-born wife, the Czarina Alexandra; their four daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia, and hemophiliac son, the Czarevich Alexis; the family doctor, Eugene Botkin; and three servants...
...says Joseph Fessio, an American Jesuit and a former student. However, as the Pope's conservative eminence grise, the Cardinal is also one of the most despised men in Catholicism. Critics decry his hard-line ways and his apostasy from the seeming liberalism of his youth. They call the German-born prelate "Panzer Kardinal" and conjure up images of Huns and German despots. "He is very sweet -- and very dangerous," the Swiss theologian Hans Kung says. Ratzinger helped force Kung out of a professorship at the University of Tubingen for, among other things, arguing that the church -- speaking through...