Rehabilitation: Edward M. Kennedy Jr., 29, son...

Rehabilitation: Edward M. Kennedy Jr., 29, son of the Massachusetts senator, says he checked himself into a rehabilitation center in Hartford, Conn., for three weeks in June “based on my belief that continued use of alcohol is impairing my ability to achieve the goals I care about.” Kennedy is the founder of an advocacy group for the handicapped.

Helping Out at Home: Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia says her love of her homeland was rekindled during an emotional visit four years ago, and now she hopes to help shore up the health and education systems in the strife-torn nation. “I thought America was all I needed in life and that a vacation in Arizona was just fine,” she said last week in New York. “But when I set foot in my country, I cried for 24 hours.”

Heavens!: Black ministers in Memphis, Tenn., say a tiny black church’s invitation to a former Ku Klux Klan leader to speak is an insult to blacks. David Duke, a Louisiana state representative, is scheduled to speak Friday at the 50-member Savior’s Temple Pentecostal Holiness Church. “It is sickeningly repulsive, or repulsively sickening, however you want to put it,” said the Rev. Kenneth Whalum, a city councilman. But a church spokesman responded: “As Christians, we should allow a person a chance when they say they’ve made a change in life.”

Big Bust: Police in Buffalo, N.Y., busted a nickel-and-dime poker game last week at a senior citizen housing complex, but the outraged players said they would not shut down their thrice-weekly game. City housing authority rules outlaw gambling; the seniors’ bets are in the 5- to 25-cent range, and pots rarely top $5. Resident association leader Anthony St. George, 74, scoffed: “This is a matter of principle. Why don’t they go after bookmakers?”