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| | USATODAY.com - Former Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Paul Simon was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. |
 | | Simon was surrounded by family members at St. John's Hospital in Springfield when he died, according to a statement from Southern Illinois University, where Simon started a public policy institute after his retirement. |
 | | Simon was just 19 when, in 1948, he dropped out of college, borrowed $3,600 and bought a failing weekly newspaper in Troy, a town of about 1,500 across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. |
| www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-12-09-obit-simon_x.htm (1237 words) |
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