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12:31 pm
Sun October 14, 2012

Sen. Arlen Specter Dies at 82

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Arlen Specter, the five-term senator from Pennsylvania, died from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, said his son, Shanin. He was 82 years old.
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Originally published on Sun October 14, 2012 1:47 pm

Arlen Specter, the outspoken senator who started off Republican, switched to Democrat and stayed moderate throughout, has died, the AP reports.

The former five-term senator from Pennsylvania announced that he was once again battling cancer in August. He died at his home in Philadelphia on Sunday, according to his son, Shanin, from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

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Election 2012
5:45 am
Sun October 14, 2012

Strict Private School Prepped Romney To 'Aim High'

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney lived in Stevens Hall while he was attending Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
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GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's name is among those on a plaque honoring Cranbrook School's graduating class of 1965.
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Mitt Romney at age 11 at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., in 1958.
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Originally published on Sun October 14, 2012 1:14 pm

From now until November, President Barack Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will emphasize their differences. But the two men's lives actually coincide in a striking number of ways. In this installment of NPR's "Parallel Lives" series, a look at Romney's time at Cranbrook, an all-boys prep school in Michigan.

Cranbrook has been coed since the mid-1980s, its overall diversity is quite evident and the dress code is casual. None of that was true when Mitt Romney, class of 1965, was a student there.

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