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Michigan coach Red Berenson, who has won the Stanley Cup, two NCAA championships and the NHL Coach of the Year award and has universal respect in the hockey world, made a personal appeal to earlier this season. He stood with his grandson before a packed house on Oct. 17 and asked fans to stop the chant...
DIED. WALTER WASHINGTON, 88, former mayor of Washington and first black chief executive of a major American city; in Washington. The great-grandson of a slave, he was appointed Washington's mayor by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967; eight years later, after the city won home rule, he became its first elected mayor in more than 100 years. He steered the capital through some of the nation's worst urban riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., organized a new municipal bureaucracy and gave the city a budget surplus...
...world's two largest cell-phone makers are cleaning house. Motorola's Christopher Galvin, grandson of founder Paul Galvin, resigned as CEO in September after six years at the helm. The company then decided to dump its semiconductor arm. Then Helsinki-based Nokia shuffled top management positions, bringing in Rick Simonson as chief financial officer, the first Yank to crack Nokia's upper ranks...
...burger chain Carl's Jr., which is testing ExpressPay, faster lines at the cashier and reduced backups at the drive-through window have brought in new customers. "It's a no-lose situation," says Jason LeVecke, grandson of the chain's founder. Women seem to grasp the advantages of the new system quicker than men--something Amex learned to its surprise in focus groups. "It sure would be easier than fumbling around in my purse," says Tracey Serenka, who had her two sons--Eric, 1, and Jason, 4--in tow at a Carl's Jr. recently. Another advantage over...
...produced flames that spread far and wide, consuming desert camps and towns alike. He told his dream to a sheik, who said the man's son would found a new faith that the desert Arabs would adopt. And so it transpired--although the founder was ultimately the man's grandson: Mohammed ibn Abd Wahhab...