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DIED. MARIE WINDSOR, 80, longtime Screen Actors Guild activist and film-noir starlet famous for portraying independent if not always angelic women; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Best known for the noir classics Force of Evil and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing, Windsor also starred in a string of films in the 1950s, such as Cat Women of the Moon, that earned her the moniker Queen...
...looking to bring a big-named celebrity activist to campus," Bianco said...
...aide called Leahy at home and said, "You're not going to believe what the Supreme Court just did." Just then Leahy's TV flashed the news. He was speechless. "You got to be kidding," he said finally. "After this, I never want to hear the Republicans complain about activist judges...
DIED. MARVEL COOKE, 97, pioneering journalist and political activist who in 1950 became the first black woman to write full time for a major white-owned newspaper; in New York City. She created the first local newspaper guild at a black publication, which in 1934 led to one of the first organized-labor victories for African Americans in U.S. history...
...Middle East [has] made it more difficult to reach a settlement," and suggested that his administration would try to avoid the mistake of pushing for a final agreement on Jerusalem. Cheney's comments underline the expectation that the new Bush administration will eschew President Clinton's activist, micromanaging style to Mideast peace, and may adopt a less optimistic approach. The stated intention of President-elect Bush's foreign policy team is to formulate policy on the basis of a more clearly defined U.S. national interest, and that may make the new administration more inclined to view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...