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Donald Rumsfeld, 2003 News

U.S. secretary of defense, maintained—and strengthened—his role as one of the Bush administration's most fervent hawks during the war in Iraq. Blunt and outspoken, he ruffled feathers with…

Donald Carty, 2003 News

airline executive, resigned as American Airlines chief executive officer in April, after facing intense criticism for his handling of negotiations with airline unions. Unionized workers…

Donald Regan 2003 Deaths

Donald ReganAge: 84 financier who resigned as chairman of Merrill Lynch in 1981 to become President Reagan's treasury secretary. Immensely popular and influential with the president, Regan…

Donald Cram 2001 Deaths

Donald CramAge: 82 chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry for “synthesizing three-dimensional molecules that could mimic the functioning of natural molecules.” He also won the…

Donald Davidson 2003 Deaths

Donald DavidsonAge: 86 one of the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century, Davidson produced revolutionary studies on the philosophy of language, mind, and action. He taught at a…

Douglas, Donald Wills

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, Donald Wills, 1892–1981, aviation pioneer and aerospace executive, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1914. He helped design the first wind tunnel…

Kopacz, Ewa

(Encyclopedia) Kopacz, Ewa, 1956–, Polish politician. A graduate of the Medical Univ. of Lublin (1981), she worked as a pediatrician and as a health-care administrator. Kopacz was first elected to…

Ramotar, Donald Rabindranauth

(Encyclopedia) Ramotar, Donald Rabindranauth, 1950–, Guyanese political leader. An economist, he joined the People's Progressive party (PPP) in 1967, was elected to its central committee (1979) and…

Regan, Donald Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Regan, Donald ThomasRegan, Donald Thomasrēˈgən [key], 1918–2003, U.S. government official and financier, b. Cambridge, Mass. A graduate of Harvard (B.A. 1940), he went to work (1946)…

short story

(Encyclopedia) short story, brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the “short…