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Springs was started in 1887 by Bowles' great-great-grandfather Samuel Elliott White and great-grandfather Leroy Springs. Her father William Close took the company public in 1966. But by the time Bowles became CEO in 1998, the Southern textile industry was under siege from imports. A financial analyst by training (and political wife by fate--she's married to Erskine Bowles, once chief of staff under President Bill Clinton), Bowles understood that to remain competitive, Springs had to restructure, cut domestic production and run a more efficient operation. First she took the company private again, in September...
...some, DNA tests help confirm an ancestry that was suspected but never proved. William Sanchez, a Catholic priest in Albuquerque, N.M., always knew that he had a Spanish heritage but says he also felt a spiritual connection "to Israel and the chosen people." Although he was raised Catholic, his mother followed many Jewish traditions, such as covering mirrors in the house when someone died. But it wasn't until Sanchez took a test from Family Tree DNA in Houston that he learned he had inherited genetic markers for the Cohanim, Jewish high priests said to be descended from Moses' brother...
...will take effect in January and also forbids the state to place public money in banks that deal with foreign companies operating in Sudan. (It is illegal for U.S. firms to do work in Sudan.) The two laws will affect an estimated $2 billion in investments. New Jersey assemblyman William Payne, who authored his state's bill, hopes "this will grow from a ripple to a wave," and points to six other states, including Ohio and Massachusetts, where governments and pension funds are considering divestment. Meanwhile, Harvard students pushed the university to sell its $4.4 million stake in Petro- China...
...groups that would probably be quite unhappy if he were the pick," says Jan LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned Women for America. But in a piece two weeks ago in which he accurately predicted that O'Connor, not Rehnquist, would be the first to step down, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, one of Washington's best-connected conservatives, also predicted that Bush would appoint Gonzales and might even choose to make him Rehnquist's successor as Chief Justice when Rehnquist retires...
...Connor, a fellow law-review editor a year behind her. They married while he was still in school, but when she tried to get a job, no law firm would hire her, except as a secretary, although she had finished third in her class--two spots below classmate William Rehnquist. She eventually got a job in the San Mateo, Calif., county attorney's office by offering to start out working for free. Years later, she expressed the view that being the court's first woman didn't make much difference on its rulings. "A wise old woman and a wise...