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...Institute of Politics (IOP) celebrated its 35th anniversary last night with a party at the ARCO Forum that included speeches by IOP notables such as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin...
...mortmain”). The landowners complained bitterly of losing “the services which are due of such fees,” which after all were provided “for the defense of the realm.” And in 1279, King Edward I consented to the Statute of Mortmain, which forbade religious institutions from acquiring any land from a tenant without the lord’s permission...
...author of the best-selling 1959 novel A Separate Peace about students at a New England boarding school during World War II; in Wilton Manors, Florida. The book was required reading in American high schools for decades. APPOINTED. KENNETH FEINBERG, 56, an attorney and former aide to Senator Edward Kennedy, as manager of the compensation fund for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and their families; in Washington, D.C. Feinberg oversaw similar restitution for Agent Orange victims after the Vietnam War. APPOINTED. ROGER MILLA, 48, a Cameroon soccer legend, as the U.N.'s first African ambassador to spearhead its aids...
...Monday, after a month hiatus, Washington, D.C. postal workers began delivering mail to government offices. By Tuesday evening, two Senate office buildings were closed again after trace amounts of anthrax were found in the offices of Democratic Senators Christopher Dodd and Edward Kennedy. Officials say the bacteria presents no health threat. Investigators believe the bacteria came from a tainted letter addressed to Senator Patrick Leahy, also a Democrat. The Leahy letter, still unopened, has tested positive for lethal amounts of anthrax, and appears to be identical to the tainted letter delivered to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. It was uncovered...
...DIED. EDWARD BOLAND, 90, influential Democratic Congressman whose amendments opposing the Reagan Administration's support for rebels in Nicaragua set the stage for the Iran-contra affair; in Springfield, Mass...