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...Harvard and Cambridge, Alfred E. Vellucci must be the city's commander-in-chief. The 25 year city council veteran and lifelong East Cambridge resident has built a political career by standing up to Harvard and MIT. jabbing at the two institutions with dramatic speeches in the city council chamber, always with a flair for the newsworthy quote...
...dress in black and address each other as "friar." Both Sindona and Calvi's son Carlo, 30, believe that the banker was killed. So does Franco de Cataldo, a member of an Italian parliamentary commission investigating P2, who declared last week on the floor of the Chamber of Deputies: "It appears ever more probable that Calvi was murdered...
Wearing the green, red and white sash that symbolizes Mexico's highest office, a somber President José López Portillo took the podium in the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress last week to give his final state of the union address before retiring in December. Few political leaders have ever had to deliver a valedictory under such grim and humbling circumstances. Mexico's economy is staggering in a profound crisis that threatens the country's political and social stability. Inflation is running at 60%. More than half the population is unemployed or working...
...only 56 deputies showed up for the crucial vote, six short of the 62 required for a quorum, Gemayel militiamen went into action. After what one aide described as a number of "forceful" telephone calls, several cars pulled up to the building. The reluctant deputies were hustled into the chamber by burly escorts...
King is not the first to turn his fiction over to the echo chamber of pop culture. Writers as dissimilar as Thomas Pynchon and Donald Barthelme have toyed for years with the mass-produced icons that have invaded the communal memory. But King takes them dead seriously, and so, evidently, do his millions of readers. A devoted child of the audiovisual age, the millionaire author still likes to get up in the morning and switch on rock 'n' roll. King, his wife Tabitha and their three children alternate between an airy modern house in a Maine village...