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...STEPPING DOWN. PHIL KNIGHT, 66, Nike co-founder and master marketer; as CEO of the world's biggest athletic-shoe company, effective next month; in Beaverton, Oregon. Knight and the late Bill Bowerman started out in the 1960s making soles with a waffle iron and selling the shoes out of a car trunk. Knight, who will remain chairman, will be replaced by William Perez, CEO of S.C. Johnson...
...handwriting on the wall. While the insurgency doesn't disappear, it tends to collapse to something down around noise level." But if Fallujah is a sign of things to come, the volume is likely to get cranked up first. --Reported by Andrew Lee Butters/Mosul, Aparisim Ghosh and Phil Zabriskie/Baghdad, and Mark Thompson/Washington
...followed this immersion with a solid grounding in classical and jazz piano, then launched his career with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and later with a quintet led by saxophonist Phil Woods, with whom he continues to make appearances today. "What struck me was his depth," says Woods. "A lot of young players have university credentials but have lost touch with the street. They all sound the same. Not Bill. He really gets down deep into...
...mastermind behind gritty blues-rock icons Gov’t Mule, is the latest of these musical renaissance men. Apart from his work in Mule, Haynes has cemented his legend with a burgeoning solo career and the contribution of his inimitable guitar style to tours with The Dead, Phil Lesh and Friends and The Allman Brothers Band...
...congressional majorities do not necessarily confer a clear mandate for conservative policy, according to Phil Sharp, the acting director...