Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Much is made in the Hong Kong press of Richard's attempts to step out of his father's shadow; of how he was passed over in favor of elder brother Victor, now 35, as heir apparent to the Li empire; and of the differing styles of father and son. The father is reclusive, cordial, traditional and lives in the same house he bought for $13,000 in the 1960s. Richard likes junk food, can be blunt with subordinates, is building a lavish mansion and flew Whitney Houston to Hong Kong for his millennium party. (One trait the duo share...
...Richard is deputy chairman of Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa conglomerate, owns 5% of Tom.com and has a long history of cross dealings with his old man. Is he a son with burning ambitions of his own? Or one standing on his father's shoulders? Perhaps a little of both...
...himself. Their bet was that Castro wouldn't risk the the dad's defection. But last week, as Castro watched the exiles scramble to keep the Clinton Administration from repatriating Elian, he announced in Havana that Juan Miguel would soon be headed to the U.S. for his son. "The airplane," said Castro, "is ready...
...however, Nasrallah is vehement. "Let us be clear," he says. "In our opinion, the Jewish state is an illegitimate and illegal state and will remain so in the eyes of the Arab and Muslim people, even if it is 50 years, 100 years, 200 years." Nasrallah lost his eldest son, Mohammed Hadi, then 18, in the resistance, and has another currently at the front...
...postcard of the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory supervisor accused on wobbly evidence of murdering a teenage girl in Atlanta. Some years later, Allen was offered a 1911 picture of Laura Nelson, a black woman strung up from a bridge in Oklahoma. Her 14-year-old son had allegedly shot a deputy who was searching the Nelson cabin for stolen meat...