Kennedy, 52, a fiscal moderate with a law degree from the University of Virginia and an advanced degree from Oxford, served as state Secretary of the Treasury and was special counsel to former Gov. Buddy Roemer.

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The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS) will work in collaboration with Oxford University, King's College London, Bangor University and the National Library of Wales on the "archaeological background of the emergence of the Celtic languages in western Europe".

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