A stroke the following year left him nearly unable to move; he communicated via computer.
His wife had died in a boating accident that year, leaving him to raise two children, ages 6 and 9.
A broad Gulf Stream of books about him flows on and on, year after year, leaving him, I fear, more read about than read.
The famously flamboyant pianist seemed like a new man at Tanglewood, in his first major performance since an injury last year left him largely out of commission.
His campaign reported raising $633,000 in the first three months of the year, leaving him $1.2 million in the bank as of March 31.
But it has worked, year after year, leaving him not only secure in his job but the deserving recipient of the "genius" label often put on him by admirers, or the slightly modified "evil genius" one given by detractors.
He said the news that the hotel, at Park Avenue and 61st Street, will close Jan . 1for a wholesale renovation that could last a full year left him feeling "very disappointed" and displaced.
Chen Fashu's shopping mall chain New Huadu Supercenter is having another sluggish year, leaving him at $1.48 billion.
A second stroke in mid-April of that year left him in a coma from which he did not regain consciousness.
Klausner, who says that his new position "is a calling," estimates that it will take up half his time for at least a year, leaving him an opportunity to continue running his NCI laboratory.
Suhaimi's HIV-positive wife, Ina, had died of cancer earlier in the year, leaving him as the sole parent to his biological son and Ina's three children, including one living with HIV.
