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...Boston??€™s FleetCenter may have been the venue meticulously converted into a staging space for the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC), but Harvard Square’s Charles Hotel became the home to hundreds of VIPs and celebs who descended upon Boston this week to attend the convention, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, actors Ben Affleck and Danny Glover, singer Patty LaBelle, left-leaning filmmaker Michael Moore, comic pundit Al Franken ’73—and, not least of all, both Clintons...
...BOSTON??€”They came by the thousands from across the country, filing into the FleetCenter for three straight days and nights to participate in the formal nomination of a presidential candidate, hear the best rhetoric an opposition party had to offer or gawk at Beltway celebs. Often, it seemed just being in the corridors abutting the floor of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) was enough. Certainly, it was enough to spur a healthy trade in the many-colored stiff paper passes which granted varying levels of convention access to their bearers...
...they thought. In fact, as the FleetCenter filled to capacity, Boston??€™s fire marshal ordered its doors shut last night more than an hour before Kerry took the stage. Delegates, special guests and reporters were barred from the DNC by police officers; and though a few VIPs talked their way in to catch for the nominee’s speech, the vast majority were forced to depart and watch Kerry from a local watering hole—or, for a lucky few gathered by one of the Center’s entrances, to witness an impromptu rendition...
...BOSTON??€”In the early stages of the showdown between Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., and President Bush, the media made a big deal about how both of the two major candidates were Yalies...
Added to the trophy case was an All-New England pick for the fourth year in a row; the Gridiron Club of Boston??€™s Bulgar Lowe Award, given to the top defensive player in New England; a second team D I-AA All-America nod; and a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award, given to the top defensive player in D I-AA football...