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...easily as the biblical giant. While Medical area workers demonstrate in the freezing cold outside Mass hall--"We're a separate unit, so let's get to it!"--Daniel Steiner, the University's general counsel, sits inside coordinating Harvard's predictably airtight legal defense. As workmen paste up a billboard near the Medical Area calling on President Bok to relent, Thomas L.P. O'Donnell, a Ropes and Gray labor lawyer whom Ed Powers, director of employee relations, calls "one of the best in the business" is drafting briefs that will certainly give District 65 a run for its money...
...Odyssey) sells Bing out for a bigger name. His addled, overattentive parents come to believe he is someone else, rather than their disappointing son. An old childhood, friend, now a rich and famous movie star, even upstages Bing's suicide attempt with a dive from a Broadway billboard. The star has sold the rights to his death...
...Wallace, whose "Trust the People" billboard is plastered all over Southie, Somerville, East Boston, Everett and the North End, get his own diehard vote out to the polls in such areas...
Exiles never forget, of course, but the emigre communities in Miami, San Juan, and New Orleans have calmed down. Extremist groups may still throw a hand grenade down the gangplank of a Russian cruise ship or threaten the airlines of countries resuming diplomatic relations with Cuba, but the lurid billboard in San Juan that showed Cuban soldiers executing prisoners before a bloodsplashed wall disappeared years ago. Hardly anyone remembers its slogan...
...Brooklyn-born singer-composer (Where You Lead; You 've Got a Friend) starred in an S.R.O. performance before 3,400 fans. She had more to toast than just the passing of another year. While King sang in San Francisco, her 1971 album Tapestry celebrated its 254th week on Billboard magazine's top albums chart. Its worldwide sales so far: more than 13 million...