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August 1997 News and Events

1997 News Month-By-MonthWorldIsrael Steps Up Pressure on Palestinians (Aug. 1): Arrests dozens in wake of suicide bombing in crowded market. Delays drastic action against Palestinian leaders.…

Healy, Timothy Michael

(Encyclopedia) Healy, Timothy Michael, 1855–1931, Irish statesman, first governor-general of the Irish Free State (1922–27). Elected to Parliament in 1880, he worked closely with Charles Stewart…

Essex Junto

(Encyclopedia) Essex Junto, group of New England merchants and lawyers, so called because many of them came from Essex co., Mass. They opposed the radicals in Massachusetts in the American Revolution…

Connecticut Wits

(Encyclopedia) Connecticut Wits or Hartford Wits, an informal association of Yale students and rectors formed in the late 18th cent. At first they were devoted to the modernization of the Yale…

Timothy White 2002 Deaths

Timothy WhiteAge: 50 editor in chief of Billboard magazine. He wrote Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley. He died of a heart attack. Died: Manhattan, June 27, 2002Nancy WhiteR - ZRobert…

Hagel, Chuck

(Encyclopedia) Hagel, Chuck (Charles Timothy Hagel), 1946–, U.S. politician and government official, b. North Platte, Nebr. He served (1967–68) in the infantry in the Vietnam War, receiving several…

Hartwell, Leland Harrison

(Encyclopedia) Hartwell, Leland Harrison, 1939–, American cell biologist, b. Los Angeles, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964. He is a professor at the Univ. of Washington (1968–) and…

2001 People in the News

Danny Almonte,Jessie Arbogast, 8,Lord Jeffrey Archer,Lori Berenson, 31,Silvio Berlusconi,Osama bin Laden,Thomas Blanton, Jr.,Barry Bonds,Veronica “Roni” Bowers,David Brock,Jennifer Capriati,…

Kaine, Tim

(Encyclopedia) Kaine, Tim (Timothy Michael Kaine), 1958–, U.S. politician, b. St. Paul, Minn., B.A. Univ. of Missouri, 1979, J.D. Harvard, 1983. After a clerkship, he was a lawyer in private practice…

Timothy HUTCHINSON, Congress, AR (1949)

Senate Years of Service: 1997-2003 Party: Republican HUTCHINSON Timothy , a Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; born in Bentonville, Ark., August 11, 1949; attended public schools in…