Word: thrones
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...most eagerly awaited executive decision since the scrapping of New Coke, super-CEO Jack Welch last week named an heir to the GE throne. He is Jeffrey Immelt, 44, an aggressive yet charming manager who currently runs GE's Medical Systems unit. GE was mum on Immelt's numbers, which will be laid out in the company proxy in a few months. No doubt the Welch protege won a valuable prize. As Welch pointed out during a press conference last week, "He got a helluva raise, I'll tell you that...
...story hangs on the testimony of an interested party. But according to Father Gabriele Amorth, exorcist for the Diocese of Rome, the heir to the throne of St. Peter recently spent half an hour struggling--literally--with a demon from hell. Pope John Paul II was conducting his regular Wednesday audience on Sept. 6 when there was reportedly a disturbance in the front row. A 19-year-old woman began screaming insults in what Italian newspapers called "a cavernous voice." Struggling with guards, she displayed "a superhuman strength." The frail Pontiff did not hesitate. After the apparent demoniac was hurried...
...Peru may ostensibly be a democracy, but the security forces continue to play a major role in politics, and Montesinos had long been viewed as the power behind Fujimori's throne. To understand exactly what has happened over the past week, it would help to know just how the videotape depicting him in what appears to be an act of bribery found its way into the hands of the opposition and onto television - an apparent sting worthy of his own intelligence service's political dirty tricks. Observers will be closely watching Montesinos's movements, because while Fujimori also announced...
...This was a day Australians would remember for the rest of their lives. Ian Thorpe, Australia's 17-year-old Water King, took his throne today. Thorpe swam like a shark followed by blubbery tunas, outpacing the field in the 400-meter freestyle by 10 feet and destroying the old Olympic record with his time of 3:40.59. The center exploded in joy - I'm not sure, but I think the roof actually did come off the building. But in typical Australian understated style, Thorpe smiled modestly and barely waved. Thorpe is the bane of a sport photographer's existence...
MATRICULATING. PRINCE WILLIAM, 18, heir to the heir to the British throne and towheaded teen pinup; to Scotland's St. Andrews University; to study art history after taking this year off to work and travel the world...