Daily News Briefs

Larry Rawstorne has been appointed business manager of LogicVision-Europe. . . . Cleveland Crystals has been selected as the crystal finishing vendor for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory National Ignition Facility project. . . . Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has appointed Dick Thurston vice president and general counsel, effective January 2002. He replaces K.C. Chen, who has resigned as senior vice president and general counsel to teach law at a Taiwanese university. . . . Gregory L. Summe, chairman, president and CEO of PerkinElmer Inc., has been elected to TRW's board of directors.