Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 2003 — Page 8

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well in the February 2004 primaries in more conservative areas, such as South Carolina, Virginia, Arizona, and Oklahoma. With millions of American families and children lacking

health insurance while health care costs escalate, Lieberman and his rivals have seized on that issue. Lieberman calls his plan the MediKids program, but it's for

"kids" up to age 25, regardless of income. Other uninsured adults would pay for a low-cost health plan Lieberman calls MediChoice, modeled on the federal employees program.

Elia Kazan, 94, directed films, Broadway plays

At this year’s High Holy Days, your synagogue seat will look something like this.

During this year’s High Holy Days, you’ll find an Israel Tourism Pledge Card on synagogue seats across America.

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Be one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans demonstrating their love and support for Israel by declaring: “I Care. And I’m Going.”

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NEW YORK—Elia Kazan, one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history, died at the age of 94. His movie classics included "On the Waterfront" and "East of Eden." He won Oscars and Tony Awards for his work. The plays he directed included "All My Sons" (1947) and "Death of a Salesman" (1949). Seven of Mr. Kazan's films won a total of 20 Academy

Awards. Mr. Kazan was given an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 1999. That award was controversial because in 1952 he angered many friends and colleagues by giving the House Un-American Activities Committee names of people whom he knew had been Communist Party members. He also admitted to having been a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s.

Franco Modigliani, 85, won Nobel for economics

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— Franco Modigliani, a lifelong foe of fascism who won a Nobel Prize in economics, has died at the age of 85. Mr. Modigliani had been a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1985 in part for showing that people are more concerned about saving for their retirement than they are about bequeathing their wealth to their children. His ana'ysis of personal savings is termed the life-cycle theory. It helped explain the varying rates of savings by different age groups and has

proved useful for predicting the performance of pension plans. Born in Rome the son of a Jewish physician, Modigliani left Italy in 1939. He was a critic of conservative Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whom he suspected of favoring fascists. Mr. Modigliani was one of three Nobel laureates who wrote a letter to The New York Times criticizing an award by the Anti-Defamation League to Berlusconi just weeks after a British magazine quoted Berlusconi as saying "Mussolini never killed anyone."

Marshall N. Rosenbluth; nuclear fusion pioneer

SAN DIEGO—Marshall N. Rosenbluth, who helped develop the hydrogen bomb, has died at the age of 76. In his youth Rosenbluth was exposed to radioactive fallout in a nuclear test. Soon after, he devoted his studies to efforts to turn the nuclear fusion process to

peaceful uses. In 1997 he won the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, for his contributions to physics. In the 1950s he worked with Edward Teller at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on secret research that helped create the hydrogen bomb.

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