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Doing double duty as speaker and proud parent or uncle at no fewer than three commencements last week, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 51, could not have been more in evidence if he were running for President-or head of the P.T.A. He returned to his alma mater, the Fessenden School in West Newton, Mass., where his youngest son, Patrick, 15, was graduating from the ninth grade. Next came Brown University for the graduation of Nephew John F. Kennedy Jr., 22. But it was last week's graduation of Daughter Kara, 23, from Tufts University that created an unusual family...
...distressed that my alma mater, for reasons inexplicable to me, has decided to be anti-union. A work force that has respect and dignity enhances the institution," Frank told the workers...
...following test was developed by Psychologists Lyle H. Miller and Alma Dell Smith at Boston University Medical Center. Score each item from 1 (almost always) to 5 (never), according to how much of the time each statement applies...
...weapon," she said. "I guess they felt we could do them harm if our pictures were shown. The people were let go." Meanwhile, over at the Vassar campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Alumna and two-time Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep, 34, gave the commencement address and credited her alma mater with instilling in her "a taste for excellence." But, she added in a cautionary note, "if you can live with the devil, Vassar has not sunk its teeth into you." He would have to catch up first. The next day Streep was off to New Haven to pick...
...other small businessmen a fortnight ago to protest government price controls and other austerity restrictions. Accompanied by a goat on a leash, symbolizing the marchers' refusal to be scapegoats for the squeeze, the middle-aged multitude was tear-gassed by the police at the Pont d'Alma in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. Said Jean Brunei, vice president of the 1.5 million-member Small and Medium Business Confederation: "We are demanding the freedom to manage our own businesses as we choose." Farmers, meanwhile, were planning to pursue their running protest against the government's failure...