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Sat 03 Mar 2003'On that note, class concluded'
Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Daniel Patrick Moynihan (76), the scholar and senator, orator and author, whose intellectual and political leadership did much to shape US national policy on the major issues of his time, died on Wednesday in Washington, where he was recovering from an infection after an emergency appendectomy.
A maverick Democrat, he represented New York in the Senate for four terms, deciding not to seek re-election in 2000. Throughout his 24 years on Capitol Hill, he was one of the most trenchant and memorable voices in the national debates on such issues as national security and social security, as well as on welfare reform and family matters.
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