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STEPPING DOWN. PHIL KNIGHT, 66, marketing guru, as CEO and daily manager of Oregon-based Nike, the $21 billion company he co-founded in 1972 and transformed into the world's biggest athletic shoe company; effective next month. Knight and Bill Bowerman, now deceased, started out in 1962, making soles with Bowerman's waffle iron. Knight, who will retain the title of chairman, will be replaced by William Perez, the CEO of S.C. Johnson...
...Jeff is the guru in the field,” said John B. Mulliken, a Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor of surgery, whose specialty is performing surgery on children with cleft palates...
...color in the spectrum. They can even be set to follow the rhythms of a piece of music (Donna Summers anyone?). There is so much room for variation, in fact, that the house has encouraged Quincy residents to discover their artistic sides by being light guru for a day, trying their hand at controlling the colors and pattern of the lights...
...Many oenophiles rely on the ratings and recommendations of wine guru Robert Parker when selecting the perfect bottle. But leafing through a stack of Parker's Wine Advocate newsletters isn't an attractive option when you're picking wine at a restaurant or browsing the aisles of a wine shop...
...chef Ken Hom rates it as his favorite, and International Herald Tribune food guru Patricia Wells once ranked it No. 3 in her top 10 restaurants list...