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...complain about a photo the paper ran of the elusive former Veep in Valencia, Spain, sporting--surprise!--a patchy beard. Word is, the beard will come off before the former presidential candidate ends his self-imposed exile and returns from Europe. Apparently he intends to become a freedom fighter for the Democratic Party beginning next week. At an "academy" in Nashville, Tenn., he'll train 25 fresh college graduates to be political operatives, the Times reports. Then it's on to Jersey and Virginia to train more troops on getting out the vote for gubernatorial races. Gore's spokespeople...
...DIED. REX T. BARBER, 84, above right, World War II U.S. fighter pilot given partial credit for shooting down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the strategist of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in a famed 1943 ambush; in Terrebonne, Oregon. For 28 years the Air Force gave sole credit to pilot Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., above left, but in 1973 Barber was officially recognized. DIED. EDWARD GIEREK, 88, reform-minded communist leader of Poland from 1970-1980 whose attempts to liberalize the economy plunged the country into debt and ignited the discontent that led to the creation...
While the fire-fighter may represent the district that elected Moakley, Sayurra Ozawa, a 24-year-old native of Japan, represents the next generation of the Ninth. She has only lived in her Dorchester apartment for a year...
...Aviation Challenge, Huntsville, Ala., and Atwater, Calif. For ages 9 to 18; weeklong camps in aviation basics. Teens with the right stuff can progress to jet-fighter simulators and classes in air-combat techniques...
...panel provided observers the chance to see the new Harvard president, a world-class college debater and an intellectual prize-fighter, in action. In his presentation, which ran well over the allotted ten minutes, the former Secretary of the Treasury spoke without notes, outlining some of what he saw as the legacies of the Clinton administration...