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Returning home from Vietnam with the rank of captain and five medals, including three purple hearts, John Kerry became a leading protester against the war. He used his newfound prominence to launch a bid for Congress, but failed. After a stint as a high-profile prosecutor in Massachusetts' Middlesex County and then a term as Lieutenant Governor, he finally gained national office when he was elected to the Senate in 1984. Yale, Vietnam and the Senate are the biographical highlights that the Kerry campaign is using to introduce the candidate to voters. But it was his earliest years that formed...
...March 21, 1790, Thomas Jefferson belatedly arrived in New York City to assume his duties as the first Secretary of State after a five-year ministerial stint in Paris. Tall and lanky, with a freckled complexion and auburn hair, Jefferson, 46, was taken aback by the adulation being heaped upon the new Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, who had streaked to prominence in his absence. Few people knew that Jefferson had authored the Declaration of Independence, which had yet to become holy writ for Americans. Instead, the Virginian was eclipsed by the 35-year-old wunderkind from the Caribbean...
DIED. ROBERT TEETER, 65, gentlemanly but tough G.O.P. pollster; of cancer; in Ann Arbor, Mich. After a stint coaching football at his alma mater, Albion College, he helped guide the campaigns of four Republican Presidents, beginning with Richard Nixon in 1968. A pioneer in the use of focus groups and daily tracking polls, he proposed Dan Quayle as former President Bush's running mate in 1988. Four years later, as the team's campaign chair-man, he drew much of the blame for its failed re-election bid from critics who said he had underestimated the strength of rival Patrick...
...announced recently, Spain and Portugal - isn't enough to set a clear direction for the E.U. In other words, if there was ever a time for strong leadership at the center, this is it. "If the Commission declines, the system won't work," says Jacques Delors, whose 1985-95 stint in Brussels set the gold standard for the Commission presidency. During his tenure, Delors set up the single market and took the first steps toward the common currency. "We need a strong [Commission] to run the European economy." But the E.U.'s leaders didn't want another Jacques Delors...
After a brief stint at Radcliffe College as a cook, and later as a security guard, Jones joined the police department at Harvard in 1963, rising to the position of sergeant in the late 1970s, family members said...