Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work with him, oh, absolutely," says Republican state senator Jim Brulte. "On fiscal issues, he's closer to us than to the Democrats." And considering that Democrats now monopolize state government, it could have been worse, says assembly minority leader Scott Baugh. "He has tempered the insatiable appetite of the liberals...
Even grandparents who have no physical or cultural divides separating them from their grandchildren may yearn for ways to get closer. David Stearman and his wife Bernice are lucky enough to have all six grandkids living within a 25-minute drive of their home in Chevy Chase, Md. Nonetheless, the Stearmans are always looking for ways to enhance their togetherness. So Bernice has made a habit of taking the kids to "M&Ms"--movies and malls. David does something a little more adventurous. For the past 10 summers, he has gone to camp with one--sometimes two--of his grandchildren...
...hope that the residents of Adams House will have a change of heart and accept their classmates who are not fortunate to live so close to the Yard instead of maintaining their "I-live-closer-than-you-so-there" attitude and making lunchtime congestion in Quincy House double...
...Probably closer to Mary Catherine, because I guess I get fiesty and I have intense energy and I'm determined myself in my own life. So no dark side to you, then? Oh, yes I have a dark side too - yes, a very dark side...
...Closer to home, former Harvard General Counsel and current Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice Margaret Marshall is under fire for her pro-choice beliefs. First, Cardinal Bernard Law '53, Archbishop of Boston, accused her of anti-Catholic bias for enforcing a Harvard regulation that professors not use University stationery to put forth personal political opinions. And now that the Cardinal has publicly withdrawn his opposition, Massachusetts' largest pro-life organization, Citizens for Life, is protesting Marshall's nomination on the grounds that she once sat on the board of Crittenton Hastings House, a home for unwed mothers that provides...