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...successful Kennedy in public life, it helps to have already come to terms with what it means to be a Kennedy in private life. Both Joe II, the firstborn male of the third generation, and Max, the younger brother born too late to know his father as anything but an icon, seemed to feel entitled to hold office. But they learned the hard way that modern politics spits out Kennedys who don't make the grade...
When Joe finally buckled down, he made a Kennedyesque imprint on the Banking Committee, lending his star power to legislation that helped poor people get loans and housing. But he was acutely aware of the opportunity he had squandered. "You'll do fine," he advised Patrick when his younger cousin arrived in the House in 1994. "Just...
...from a year ago; in roughly the same period, its stock has gained nearly 50%, closing last week at $52. While other manufacturers downsize, Harley plans to spend $145 million on a massive expansion of its plant in York, Pa. The company offers classes at dealerships to lure younger, less experienced riders, especially women. In the past year, its sports-bike subsidiary, Buell, rolled out the Blast, an affordable lightweight motorcycle ($4,395) targeted expressly at beginners, with easy handling and a single-cylinder engine...
Picture a much younger Martha Stewart with a Scottish accent, marketed to the Ikea demographic, and you have McKevitt. Through her home-design TV shows, books and branded lines of bedding, paint and tiles, McKevitt, 33, has styled herself Britain's premier living brand. In September the former hairdresser's assistant who left home at 15 will tackle the U.S. market through home-shopping shows, catalogs and the Internet...
...discussing a potential marriage three months ago. The hotel conference room where they met near the Phoenix, Ariz., airport was cramped and seriously lacking in air conditioning. Even the bottled water was too warm to drink as Randy Furr, president and COO of Sanmina, made the pitch for his younger firm, then worth $7.7 billion, to buy SCI, then worth $4 billion, and considered a pioneer in the fast-growing business of manufacturing tech hardware for name-brand companies like Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Nokia. After nearly a day's wrangling, Furr could not get Eugene Sapp, chief executive officer...