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...night seemed a lot less like a gladiator fight than a carnival. Before the match, two women on stilts with tennis-ball headware watched couples dance to blaring Elvis Presley right outside the main stadium. The Harlem Gospel Choir performed before Diana Ross sang God Bless America. Vanessa Williams, Rick Fox, Brandi and Spike Lee poured into the seats. There were certainly more black people in this tennis stadium than the last time sisters met for a majors final--in 1884, in pasty-white Victorian Wimbledon. It was appropriate that Arthur Ashe Stadium would be the site for the first...
...outside the company, particularly on Wall Street, where GE stock has enjoyed a hefty Welch premium, Immelt knows it's just beginning. Following a successful CEO is never easy. Consider such CEO casualties as Coca-Cola's Doug Ivester and Xerox's Rick Thoman, who followed high-profile bosses--Roberto Goizueta and Paul Allaire--and barely got a chance to make a mark before the long knives came...
...Still, some historians, including Princeton University's Sean Wilentz, have a point when they worry that McCullough's type of portraiture - in common with PBS productions like Rick Burns' 'Civil War'- may represent a sort of glossy historical Norman Rockwellism that highlights personal drama in a PEOPLE magazine kind of way and pays insufficient attention to surrounding economic, social, cultural, and political contexts...
EXECUTION STAYED. NAPOLEON BEAZLEY, 25, death-row inmate who was 17 when he killed a 63-year-old man in a carjacking attempt; in Huntsville, Texas. Though neither Governor Rick Perry nor the U.S. Supreme Court (in a rare 3-to-3 vote, with three Justices abstaining because they know the victim's son, a federal judge) would halt the execution amid protest against applying the death penalty to teens, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a reprieve four hours before his scheduled death...
...hoping that the Bush compromise will deflate moves in Congress to push through legislation that would override his decision. Majorities in both houses support federal funding for research on embryonic stem cells. The Bush compromise might be enough "to head them off at the pass," says Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, an opponent of embryonic stem-cell research. It helped that Bush timed his announcement for the summer recess, when members of Congress are scattered, making it harder for Democrats to offer a speedy, unified alternative...