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...Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot him, Texas lawyer Harry Whittington is back to his routine, working all day at his office in Austin, Texas, his friends say. Whittington, who turned 79 last week, won't comment, but the facial wounds from the bird shot are "almost unnoticeable," says restaurateur Bob Woody. "He's back, full force." Whittington's card-playing buddy Joe Greenhill, a retired Texas Supreme Court justice, says, "He's been besieged with people who want him to be their lawyer." And here's an odd sign of Whittington's fame: a collector asked if Whittington would...
...Muslim Brotherhood, about a third of the vote. But when election day dawned, voters leaped at the chance to rid themselves of the incompetent and corrupt Fatah. "It's not that we love Hamas, but we didn't want Fatah anymore," says Samer Bafrawi, 26, a West Bank restaurateur. "It's a bad organization"--bad enough that he voted for the Islamists even though he says he is "not really religious at all." It was Hamas' commitment to welfare and social services that ultimately proved appealing. "We like Hamas' thinking that all Palestinians should be the same and not with...
...skinny kid carrying 80-lb. bags of cement and mortar on ramshackle scaffolding, sending nearly all his earnings back to Tuxpan. In January 1977, when he was 26, Coria had a chance encounter that would change his life--and that of Tuxpan--forever. He ran into a vacationing restaurateur from Bridgehampton who was asking directions to the Palace of Fine Arts in downtown Mexico City. Coria showed him the way, the men struck up a halting conversation in Spanish, and within two years, Coria had accepted the American's invitation to work as a gardener in the Hamptons. A tourist...
Despite the title, Alan Harding doesn't have a fuhgeddaboutit accent or specialize in Coney Island hot dogs. Instead he builds each episode around an outlandish problem (e.g., what to do with a quarter-ton of pork) and finds solutions applicable to the home kitchen. The unpretentious restaurateur runs his show like a friendly neighborhood hangout...
DIED. ARNIE MORTON, 83, restaurateur who in 1960, with Hugh Hefner and Victor Lownes, launched the first Playboy Club and then founded Morton's, the steak-house restaurants; of cancer; in Deerfield, Ill. His original Chicago eatery, opened in 1978, got a boost after Frank Sinatra dined there one night, and the newly dubbed "steak house for the rich" soon expanded to other cities...