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...Raymond L. Flynn, the former ambassador to the Vatican and mayor of Boston, is pro-life...
...liberal tradition. An Irish Catholic who rose to prominence in the early 1980s as a populist champion of the working class, Flynn, 59, is an F.D.R. Democrat who's tight with organized labor. He left city hall in 1993 to serve for four years as Bill Clinton's U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, but he still sounds more like a ward heeler than a diplomat. "I've always been a fighter for the poor people of this city, and I'll continue to do that," Flynn says one morning as he waves at rush-hour traffic. It's a well...
...remnants of his once mighty grass-roots operation to get out the vote. But the residual goodwill from his 10 years as mayor is ebbing. After he left office, two of his top aides were convicted of fund-raising-related crimes. And Flynn's tenure as an ambassador earned him a reputation for erratic and often unstatesmanlike behavior in Washington and Rome. After the Globe published an eyewitness account of him appearing drunk in the late afternoon, Flynn went on 60 Minutes to rebut the charges. Now he dismisses the controversy. "I don't think [voters] take it seriously...
PRUDENCE BUSHNELL Ambassador to Kenya warned of poor security, wins points for poise during bombing and later fallout...
FOUNDED Seventeen years ago, Phil Lader (the current U.S. ambassador to Britain) and his wife Linda were bored by the thought of a quiet Dec. 31 so they invited 60 families to spend New Year's discussing the big issues...