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Unnerved by hazardous work? Then steer clear of government jobs in Boston. City Clerk Barry Hynes, 47, reports that he has "nightmares relating to city council meetings gone out of control." The rigors of his job are such that he suffers phobic reactions when he boards the subway to come to work and again when he gets in the city hall elevator. Hynes has applied for a lifetime disability pension of $28,800 annually. Government service has also taken a toll on Richard Sinnott, 55, the former city censor. In charge of issuing permits for rock concerts, Sinnott occasionally took...
...everything but clean windows," said Assistant City Clerk Joseph Connarton Tuesday night while carrying ballot boxes to the Cambridge Election Commission headquarters, where results of the special referendum on the Prop 2 1/2 override were being tabulated. "If this doesn't pass," he joked--at about 10p.m. when it was beginning to become clear that the override had won--"we may be doing that, too. "Connarton and most of his fellow city employees have been saved-at least for one year...
While federal judges say they are familiar with Ely's theory, most seem to doubt that a judge could consistently apply it to tough cases. Washington D C circuit judge Shelly Wright--who asked Ely to clerk for him more than 15 years ago, only to have Ely accept a similar post with Warren instead--lauds Ely's "outstanding reputation in judicial circles," but notes of Democracy and Distrust. "Like a lot of writing by scholastics it doesn't get close enough to the practicality that judges have to face," He adds, "I know...
...Kahn entitles one chapter "Nice if You Can't Afford Pewter," the remark Jock made in reply to a rich friend's compliment concerning the family silver. After he inherited a good part of his father's nine figures, he took a 565 a month job as a bank clerk. Commuting to work no his yacht every morning. Jock "scared the fish," a friend observed...
...from scholarly material. Enter Victor." But if the physicist is made of whole cloth, the other personae of this remarkable exercise in fiction and historiography are not, and they rise from the pages as Jakob remembers them and their contributions to physics. There is the fascinating Scotsman James Clerk Maxwell, who forged the theory of electromagnetism, and Jakob's fellow Germans, Heinrich Hertz, Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck and that disturbing chap, Albert Einstein, who, to Jakob's everlasting distress, fused physics with mathematics and introduced a radically new way of seeing and thinking...