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...real surprise is that it took until now for the National Enquirer to break its story, given the rumors going around even before Ashley Stanford was born 20 months ago. Everybody who was anybody in black political circles had heard reports of a scene that could have come straight out of a Terry McMillan novel: it was said that Jackie, Jackson's wife of 38 years, had barged into his office and upbraided Stanford for getting pregnant in order to "trap" her husband. Or that Jackson was sleeping at the home of his son, Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., because...
...there's one thing this sordid episode proves, it's that Jackson believes black folks will tolerate almost any behavior from their leaders. But this time he's gone too far. Impregnating Karin Stanford--a former political-science professor who at the time of the affair was head of the Washington office of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition--wasn't a minor ethical lapse. It's hard to think of any act more certain to knock Jackson, who was a 56-year-old father of five when the baby was conceived, off the moral high horse from which he has preached...
DIED. WILLIAM HEWLETT, 87, philanthropist, engineering whiz; in Palo Alto, Calif. Hewlett and fellow Stanford University student David Packard started their company in 1938 in a rented garage with $538. The firm's initial inventions: an automatic urinal flusher and a harmonica tuner. Its first success was selling sound-testing devices to Disney in 1939. HP entered the consumer market in 1972 with pocket calculators. Its growth and capital launched Silicon Valley, but Hewlett seemed prouder of HP's management style, stressing creativity and teamwork. Billionaires Hewlett and Packard rejoined the company in 1990, when they saw it had become...
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...becoming clear that a cell called CD4, or helper T cell, is a key player in both healthy and autoimmune responses. "T-cell activation--like the branches of government--is controlled by a series of checks and balances," explains Dr. C. Garrison Fathman, a clinical immunologist at Stanford University...