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...creases on his forehead--though if one did not read the story that the photo illustrated, it might have appeared that Manchester had been caught at a moment of alert creativity. The story, however, was about his inability to create, to write. At age 79, paralyzed in his left leg by two strokes suffered after his wife's death in 1998, he finds that he cannot complete the third volume of The Last Lion, his biography of Winston Churchill, for which readers have been eager for years. "I can't put things together," says Manchester. "I can't make...
RECOVERING. JOSHUA FARRAKHAN, 42, one of nine children of inflammatory Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan; from gunshot wounds; in Chicago. The minister's son was visiting a friend on Chicago's South Side when two attackers entered the house just after 1 a.m., shot him once in each leg, then beat him and a woman who was in the home. Farrakhan, described as "his father's right hand," remains in fair condition...
George W. Bush announced Friday his choice to succeed Gen. Hugh Shelton as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, a man with the perfect resume to be the third leg of the Bush-Rumsfeld Pentagon triangle: Currently vice chairman. Former head of the Air Force's space command. Former commander of the Pacific Air Forces. And no less importantly (especially in the personal-chemistry Bush Administration), the Kansas City native is by all accounts a pretty likable guy. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who was also in Crawford with Bush and Rumsfeld...
...said he'll run for Thurmond's seat, stands a good chance of keeping it in the GOP column. If Thurmond leaves before his term?s up, South Carolina's Democratic governor would almost surely name someone from his party to fill the vacancy, giving Democrats a leg up in that race. What's more, Republican senators tell me at least three other GOP incumbents - Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Pete Domenici of New Mexico, and Phil Gramm of Texas - are considering leaving when their terms are up in 2002 because they're fed up with the chamber and realize their...
...company has a leg up in China, where it started relatively early, in the beginning of the 1990s. Revenues in China have grown to $2 billion. And Flextronics has expanded from two locations to a nationwide operation, with relatively simple cell-phone and PDA assemblers in the south and high-end engineering and manufacturing facilities in Shanghai and Beijing...