Word: bulger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Personal safety is a familiar theme for the candidate. In a Boston Globe article last November, Barrett said, "I'm the guy who walks across the state, who stands up to Bill Bulger, and who insists Bill Weld doesn't give a damn about you and your family...
...first granting copious interviews. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II is next. Then the celebrity parade begins: U.S. Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.), Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, Gov. William F. Weld '66, state Attorney General Scott Harshbarger '64, State Senate President William Bulger, as well as myriad local politicians, including the entire Cambridge City Council...
...jury in Preston, England, convicted two boys of the abduction and brutal murder near Liverpool last February of a two-year-old, James Bulger. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both just 10 years old at the time of the killing, were sentenced to prison for an indefinite term...
Last week as the trial began, the prosecution in Regina v. A and B (Two Children) -- no other identification is allowed -- told of how Denise Bulger, 25, was buying meat at the butcher in a mall when she looked down to find that her high-spirited James had vanished from her side. Only a few minutes later, as she frantically searched for him, James was walking off with two boys, his hand trustingly in theirs. The scene, captured in a hazy film on mall security cameras, was shown in court to the nine men and three women on the jury...
...both been in court, sometimes crying as the grisly murder was described, neither A's mother nor his father has attended the trial. Boy A has kept his composure for the most part, but his companion has sobbed and clutched at the social worker beside him. James' father, Ralph Bulger, listens intently, occasionally closing his eyes...