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...Inside the Halo” brings readers deep inside the Kumin hearth. We meet her grandson Yann, who would later live in Pennypacker Hall and Lowell House before graduating with a degree in history last June. He follows in the family tradition: both of Kumin’s daughters hold Crimson-emblazoned diplomas...
...Lane is survived by his brother, David, his second wife, Osa, two daughters, and a grandson...
...Geese, a maintenance man for the California Public Utilities Commission, was not pleased last January when he discovered that his grandson Kenneth, 10, had made about 2,000 calls to a sports-trivia number. Kenneth had won a television set in the process, but he had also run up a $1,316 bill in calls to the special number. Extra-charge telephone numbers that begin with 976 are now available in nearly two dozen states. Says O'Geese: "I think it's wrong. They should explain to kids that there is a charge for the service...
...Pyrenees are no more," said Louis XIV of France when his grandson Philip acceded to the throne of Spain, and it's tempting to think that the same is true of the Himalayas. The visit to India that starts this week by Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, is being spun as a celebration of relations between Asia's giants that are good, and getting better. Whatever the truth of that claim, this much is certain: very soon, meetings between the leaders of China and India will not be of merely regional interest. They will be watched by the whole world...
DIED. JOHNNIE COCHRAN, 67, savvy, media-friendly attorney renowned for his resplendent dress and seemingly effortless charm with juries; of an inoperable brain tumor diagnosed in 2003; at his home in Los Angeles. Born in Shreveport, La., a great-grandson of slaves, Cochran won recognition after suing police departments for abuse in the 1960s and proudly displayed copies of his plaintiffs' multimillion-dollar checks in his office. His fame crested in 1995 after his successful defense of O.J. Simpson, against seemingly overwhelming evidence, of charges that he murdered his ex-wife and her friend. Cochran's signature line, a reference...