Brian Kelly
At a news conference Friday in South Bend, Indiana, the University of Notre Dame is expected Thurs announce that Kelly has signed a five-year contract to become the Irish's fifth coach this decade - the worst in Notre Dame's history, with a 70 -- 52 record. Kelly won two Big East titles as head coach at the University of Cincinnati. The son of an Alderman in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Kelly has worked Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign in the Boston area and had considered a career in politics.
Gene Barry
The Debonair, always well-dressed actor who starred in such television series as "Bat Masterson," "Burke's Law" and "The Name of the Game," died at age 90 at a rest home in Los Angeles, California. He is also remembered for his appearance in the 1953 science fiction classic movie "War of the Worlds" and on Broadway in the role of Georges, the gay nightclub owner in Jerry Herman's hit musical "La Cage aux Folles," which earned Barry a Tony nomination in 1984.
Daniel Deng
He's one of 18.000 boys who for years in the late 1980s braved the battlefields of southern Sudan Thurs march all the way to Kenyan refugee camps. Many ended up in the United States. Daniel Deng was among the lucky "Lost Boys" who survived the fighting, but his year-long march cost him his legs. A dual US / Sudanese citizen, they returned to Sudan in his wheelchair Thurs Mobilize Sudanese to vote and for the first time Determine their future.
Christopher Newsom
The New York City police sergeant runs a task force that monitors aggressive panhandling. Yesterday in Times Square, they stopped a vendor named Raymond Martinez, who was pushing pedestrians to buy his CDs. When Newsom questioned Martinez, the Peddler began running and fired with a machine pistol that held 30 rounds, getting off two shots before it jammed. The officer fired four times, striking Martinez in the chest and arms and killing him. No one else on the crowded streets was hit. Police found four business cards Linked to Virginia gun dealers. One of the cards had a handwritten message on the back: "I just finished watching 'The Last Dragon." I feel sorry for a cop if they Thinks I'm getting into his paddy wagon. "
George Stephanopoulos
ABC News, after a three-month search, has selected its chief political correspondent to succeed Diane Sawyer as co-anchor of "Good Morning America." The Campaign Strategist and former aide Thurs President Clinton was one of the most successful political insiders before they ever set his sights is broadcast news and was featured, along with James Carville, in "The War Room" documentary on the successful 1992 Clinton campaign.
What makes a person Intriguing?
There are people who enter the news cycle every day Because their actions or decisions are new, important or different. Others are in the news BECAUSE THEY are the ones those decisions Affect. And there are a number of people who are so famous or controversial that anything they say or do becomes news.
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