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Though he is a fellow Harvard graduate and a party elder, Kennedy's endorsement of Gore was not always a sure bet. Kennedy's positions on the issues, particularly on health insurance coverage and poverty, are more in line with the views Bradley has promoted...
...after three years of long-distance wrangling, they divorced. He agreed to give her the money from the Nobel Prize he felt sure he would win. Still, they continued to have contact, mostly having to do with their sons. The elder, Hans Albert, would become a distinguished professor of hydraulics at the University of California, Berkeley (and, like his father, a passionate sailor). The younger, Eduard, gifted in music and literature, would die in a Swiss psychiatric hospital. Mileva helped support herself by tutoring in mathematics and physics. Despite speculation about her possible unacknowledged contributions to special relativity, she herself...
...MAIL For seniors in elder-care facilities, learning to e-mail family and friends can be a potent revitalizing experience, the Gerontological Society was recently told. Among the hits of an innovative Web course (LINKAGES.NET): a man who says it opened "a window to life"; a woman apprised of the birth of three great-grandchildren; a senior who got e-mailed back: "You are the coolest grandma in California...
...looked very much like an actual man, a lot like her elder brother Amos, who had been her favorite but had died in agony with a breathing demon--tuberculosis--when she was nine. The angel had Amos' startling eyes, a light brown, but his voice plainly said, "I'm Gabriel, from God, to ask if you'll agree to let him make on you his only...
...editor of the school's monthly journal of conservative thought, had gone to the hospital room where his diabetic father was being treated for an insulin reaction. Before the assembled family--George Roche IV, Roche and his new wife--Lissa allegedly announced that she had been sleeping with the elder Roche for most of her 21-year marriage to his son. Hillsdale officials say Roche denied the affair to the board, "invoking God as my witness." Then two weeks ago, he abruptly retired, walking away from a job that made him the fifth-highest-paid college president in the country...