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...disease; in Glenview, Ky. After two brothers died in freak accidents, Bingham took over the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times from his father in 1971. He set new ethics guidelines, pushed public-service journalism and led the papers to three Pulitzers before a battle among the siblings prompted patriarch Barry Bingham Sr. to sell the papers to Gannett...
...Only four months old, Kadima was created by Ariel Sharon with defectors - critics say "opportunists"- from Likud and Labor. And it took an iron-fisted patriarch like Sharon to hold this band of feisty Napoleons together. Party insiders admit that if Sharon were leading the party instead of lying in a coma after a January 4 stroke, Kadima would have fared far better. Now, Kadima will be at the mercy of many partners. Even as the votes were still being counted, Olmert?s advisers last night say they were swamped by calls from prospective coalition allies wanting...
This professional namer--he never gets a name of his own--has been summoned to a small, geographically nonspecific town to arbitrate a dispute over its name. It used to be called Winthrop, after its 19th century patriarch, but a local software magnate is looking for something more hip and happening--"New Prospera" has been suggested. Also in the running is the town's original name, its Ur-name, chosen by the former slaves who founded it: Freedom...
...Henrickson (Bill Paxton) checks his calls. He has 16 messages. He's got three wives, three mortgages and seven kids. His father (Bruce Dern) suspects Bill's mother of poisoning him. Bill is opening a new branch of his Salt Lake City, Utah, hardware store, and his shady, polygamist-patriarch father-in-law Roman (Harry Dean Stanton) is demanding a cut. Then there's the matter of, er, keeping up with three wives. Pharmaceutical assistance is involved...
DIED. AL LEWIS, 95, actor best known as the cigar-chomping Grandpa on TV's The Munsters in the mid-'60s; in New York City. Lewis, who decades after the show ended regularly appeared in character as the Munsters' vampiric patriarch, was also a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show and a cantankerous 1998 Green Party candidate for New York Governor. He lost...