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...busy designing an Edsel, the Ford fiasco that went onto the market two years after the show first opened. When he envisions a gallery of great lovers through history, he mentions FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, a sacred cow when the original show opened, and Hoover's companion and heir Clyde Tolson...
Elijah was succeeded by his son Wallace, who shifted the movement away from antiwhite anger and toward orthodox Islam. Farrakhan was one of several Nation leaders who resisted Wallace's direction and sought to reconstitute Elijah Muhammad's faith. Eventually he became not only Elijah's ideological heir but also the tenant of his castle -- Farrakhan now lives in his ornate, fortress- like home where, as in Elijah's day, Nation of Islam guards are on constant patrol outside...
...eight Massachusetts residents have entered the 1994 senatorial race hoping to defy the odds and defeat the powerful heir to the Kennedy legacy...
...Boston University professor of health law. He thinks it is only a matter of time before someone sweeps up Bill Clinton's hair trimmings at a barbershop, runs a genome scan on the DNA in the hair cells and publishes the list of diseases to which the President is heir. Under current law, there is nothing Clinton or anyone else could do to stop it. Annas is worried that samples from routine blood tests on ordinary citizens could be screened and that the genetic information might eventually find its way into vast DNA data banks, a prospect James Watson...
...Mario Lemieux's return to hockey. The heir to the Great One met his biggest challenge. In the midst of his greatest season, on pace to break Gretzky's single season scoring record, Lemieux was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. But just six weeks later he was back on the Igloo ice in Pittsburgh, and he scored a goal. Lemieux went on to win the scoring title, garner some more personal awards, and add thousands to his fan club...