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...death that unnerved the elder Kennedy most completely. Not long after the disaster, the family received a letter that their son had posted just before he died. Rose Kennedy later recalled that "Joe simply threw the letter on the table and collapsed in his chair with his head in his hand, saying over and over that nothing would ever be the same again...
...Assad knows negotiations are his best option. The Syrian leader, 68, suffers multiple ailments, which are thought to include diabetes and heart disease. He is eager to prepare the succession of his son Bashar, 34, a mild-mannered, British-trained ophthalmologist who emerged as heir apparent only after his elder brother Basil died in a 1994 car crash. "Assad has more a sense of urgency now because he would like to strike the deal himself," says Bassma Kodmani-Darwish, an analyst at the Ford Foundation in Cairo. "He would rather go as the man who brought the Golan back...
DIED. FRED TRUMP, 93, entrepreneurial builder and father of mogul Donald Trump--who credits much of his success to his dad; in New Hyde Park, N.Y. The elder Trump began his career in the 1920s selling one-family homes, later moving on to lucrative New York City high rises...
...while, the couple lived in Zimbabwe, where he worked as a doctor. They returned to Minnesota, and she occasionally sent messages to her parents in Palmdale, Calif. They met her husband and daughters. "She never hid," her mother Elsie said proudly last week. The last time the elder Soliahs visited with their daughter was a decade ago, in a park in Santa Clarita, a town between Palmdale and Los Angeles. It was just for an hour or two, Soliah's mother told TIME. "We tried to reassure her," she says. "But she was so frightened because she was in California...
...collection is made up of 110 drawings by 17th century Dutch masters and includes two works by Rembrandt and one by Pieter Bruegel the Elder...