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...DIED. EDWARD HEATH, 89, moderate leader of Britain's Conservative Party who, as Prime Minister from 1970-74, brought the U.K. into the European Economic Community (now called the European Union); in Salisbury, England. His tenure was wracked with difficulties?an economy weakened by a global oil crisis and violence in Northern Ireland?and in 1975 a rising Margaret Thatcher ousted him from the party leadership. Though largely marginalized, he served in the House of Commons until his retirement...
...says Spriggs. Such objects will make priceless museum pieces. But the answers that the Teouma site may help provide are just as precious. The tussle over the origins of the Lapita and Polynesian people has boiled for more than a century, from the 1885 publication of New Zealand scholar Edward Tregear's widely debated theory that Maori were of Aryan descent, to Thor Heyerdahl's attempt, in his epic 1947 raft trip from Peru to Polynesia, to prove that South America was the Polynesians' homeland...
...activist groups that will carry the nomination fight to the public, the name of the game is hit early and often. Conservatives still remember their bitter and unsuccessful 1987 fight over Reagan's Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, when they were caught off guard by Senator Edward Kennedy's lightning-fast characterization of Bork--within an hour of Bork's nomination--as a man who would create an America where "women would be forced into back-alley abortions [and] blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters." The label stuck and helped ensure Bork's defeat. For weeks Progress for America...
...Copley Square luncheon, whose guests included Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54, D-Mass., and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Khai said that Boston’s success in forging a bond between its universities and technological innovation is a strong model for countries like Vietnam...
...celebrated Senator from New York for more than a decade and Governor of his state for two terms before he went to Washington. Ohio's Salmon P. Chase, too, had been both Senator and Governor, and had played a central role in the formation of the Republican Party. Edward Bates was a widely respected elder statesman from Missouri, a former Congressman whose opinions on national matters were still widely sought. All three men, knowing they were better educated, more experienced and more qualified than Lincoln, were stunned when he received the Republican nomination and went on to win the election...