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...affects the kidneys. This makes his choice of a vice-presidential running mate all the more important. Many Filipinos are convinced that Marcos is plotting to be succeeded by his wife Imelda, 56, even though both have issued denials. Another possibility is that his running mate would be José Rono, the country's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local Government...
Indians are running FORTUNE 500 companies (Rono Dutta is president of United Airlines, and Rakesh Gangwal is president and CEO of U.S. Airways) or, as consultants and securities analysts, telling others how to do so. (Calcutta-born Rajat Gupta, managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Co., does both.) But above all, they are bringing their own entrepreneurial stamp to America's high-tech frontiers. Venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's biggest VC firms, says 40% of its portfolio consists of companies founded or managed by people of Indian origin. Indians have...
Harvard's Spencer Punter overcame Mother Nature to lead the Crimson with his 20th-place finish. Punter covered the 6.2-mile course in 31:50, just one minute behind winner Peter Rono--the same Rono who was the 1500 champion in the 1988 Olympics--of Mount Saint Mary's College...
Kenyan runners, in fact, took gold in four out of six distance events, with Peter Rono winning the 1,500 meters, John Ngugi the 5,000 meters and Julius Kariuki the steeplechase. Rono attributed his compatriots' success to the high level of competition they face in their own country. Said he: "We have many young talents back home, and it is not easy to make the Olympic team. I felt it was harder than winning here...
...Rono added that UNIHAB had originally planned to wrap the condominiums around the now burned building until the leases were over. Then, she said, the company planned to tear down the building and construct an urban park...