Adam Clymer writes, "Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Harvard professor and four-term United States senator from New York who brought a scholar's eye for data to politics and a politician's sense of the real world to academia, died yesterday at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. He was 76. The cause, a spokesman for the family said, was complications of a ruptured appendix... Mr. Moynihan was always more a man of ideas than of legislation or partisan combat. Yet he was enough of a politician to win re-election easily - and enough of a maverick with close Republican friends to be an occasional irritant to his Democratic party leaders. Before the Senate, his political home from 1977 to 2001, he served two Democratic presidents and two Republicans, finishing his career in the executive branch as President Richard M. Nixon's ambassador to India and President Gerald R. Ford's ambassador to the United Nations."

There will be a Memorial for Charles Ruff, President Clinton's attorney who recently passed away. It will be held on Saturday, December 16th at the Washington National Cathedral, Washington DC. Service will be held at 10:30 am and seating needs to be planned for 10am due to security. In Lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations go to Swarthmore College payable as: Charles F. C. Ruff '60 District of Columbia Scholarship Fund, c/o Susan Levin, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, Pa 19081.

"Steady as a rock. Dependable. Friendly. You could always go to him for help. He's loved in California. This comes as a great blow. I'm going to miss him," said Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.