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...Church Cathedral in Louisville delivered the homily. “With your mustache and straggly beard you were Don Quixote on horseback, heroic, dreaming the impossible dream, sometimes tilting at windmills, yes, but fighting for causes, slaying dragons.”Until near the end of his life, Bingham rose each day at 5:45 a.m. to row his single—the cheapest that could be bought—along the Ohio River.This morning, his friends plan to row on the Charles River. DYNASTY ON THE DECLINE“To understand Barry Bingham Jr., you have to understand...
...Kappes, who served in the Marines before spending nearly 25 years in the CIA, is fluent in Russian and Farsi and served in the Agency's Frankfurt station running operations against Iran. He rose to become deputy director for operations just before George Tenet stepped down as CIA director in the summer of 2004. But Kappes resigned in November of that year in solidarity with his then-deputy, Michael Sulick, after Kappes refused a request to reassign Sulick several days after an angry run-in with Goss' chief of staff, Patrick Murray...
...DIED. Edouard Michelin, 42, who in 1999 succeeded his father Fran?ois as CEO of the tire firm bearing the family name; in a boating accident; near Sein island, France. An engineer and onetime assembly-line worker who rose through the ranks, he controversially cut thousands of jobs to improve competitiveness, reformed the company's secretive image and created the annual Challenge Bibendum, in which automakers worldwide compete to create the most eco-friendly cars...
...Elugelab Island, W. Pacific Ocean Ivy's explosion broke the stillness of a mid-Pacific morning on Nov. 1, 1952; at 7:15 a.m., observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab...Its colors lost their infernal intensity, paled to harmless-looking but deadly pastels. April...
...financing of its core operations. He will serve on a “committee of eminent persons” along with former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan, People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, and five others, the fund announced Thursday. El-Erian rose to deputy director of the IMF’s Middle East Department during his decade-and-a-half at the fund, and he was reportedly a candidate for the fund’s top post. —Staff writer Cyrus M. Mossavar-Rahmani can be reached at crahmani@fas.harvard...