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DIED. BILL BOWERMAN, 88, track coach and Nike co-founder, who sparked the '70s jogging boom; in Fossil, Ore. In 24 years at the University of Oregon, Bowerman coached Steve Prefontaine and the 1972 Olympic team, and used his wife's waffle iron to develop Nike's revolutionary running sole...
DIED. JIANG HUA, 93, judge who presided over the 1980 Gang of Four trial that revealed many excesses of the Cultural Revolution; in Hang-zhou, China.
He lives a quiet private life, on a country estate outside London surrounded by razor wire, packed with burglar alarms, patrolled by dogs. But last week an intruder managed to break into George Harrison's bedroom in the middle of the night and stab him. Harrison's wife Olivia ended...
The alleged attacker was Michael Abram, 33, from the Liverpool suburb of Huyton. Nicknamed "Mad Mike" by neighborhood children, Abram was occasionally seen listening to a Walkman and serenading no one in particular from the balcony of his apartment. His mother told the Liverpool Echo that he had recently become...
Harrison, 56, who beat back throat cancer 18 months ago, was planning to host a giant millennium bash at his estate. Instead he spent New Year's Eve in the hospital with his wife. He also got a little help from former band mates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, who...