**FILE**In this Dec. 23, 1976 file photo, Sen. Edward Kennedy, second from left, Sen. Edward Brooke, left, Sen. Claiborne Pell and Mass. Rep. Margaret Heckler, right, shown at a hearing on the broken-up Liberian oil tanker Argo Merchant in Boston. Former six-term Rhode Island Sen. Claiborne Pell has died after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease Thursday Jan. 1, 2009. He was 90. Pell, a Democrat, is best known for the grant program in his name that has helped millions attended college. (AP Photo/MSG, File)