Word: collared
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...least not until Joe Moakley, South Boston's beloved 15-term Congressman, announced last February that he was dying of leukemia. Max had bounced around the country from Los Angeles to Philadelphia, but in the carpetbagging Kennedy tradition, he suddenly bought a five-bedroom colonial in Moakley's blue-collar district. Patrick arranged for his cousin to have an audience with Moakley. Max tapped the Kennedy union connections, fund-raising network and advisers. Almost overnight, he became the presumed front runner in a potential field that included at least half a dozen seasoned pols...
...first cousin Michael Skakel--now charged with a 25-year-old murder in Connecticut--were arrested in 1983 for assaulting a Harvard campus cop. Then came a Globe poll showing Max in a dead heat with state senator Stephen Lynch, an ex-ironworker who grew up in the blue-collar Southie neighborhood. That weekend, four days before Max was to announce his candidacy, his press spokesman, Scott Ferson, got a call from Hyannis Port. "I'm not going to do this," Max told...
...where he fought Phil Maier, 43, a 150-lb. judge from New York City. Wearing gloves and headgear, they pounded each other for four rounds. Mehta won, but there were no hard feelings. The next day, the fighters had lunch together. Such camaraderie isn't unusual on the white-collar boxing circuit, where Wall Street traders, City of London bankers and other execs routinely pummel one another. Bouts are organized by the International White Collar Boxing Association. The top prize: bragging rights. The next fight: Sept. 14, at Gleason's Gym in New York City...
...Tiger, The China Syndrome, JFK), he played a businessman in danger of being betrayed by his own best instincts--the sad-clown face of America at the twilight of its imperial reign, the Organization Man whom the organization would crush. Lemmon in his maturity was Job with a white-collar...
...white robes and red stoles. A circle of clergy laid hands on the head of Thaddeus Rockwell Barnum, 44, a priest from South Carolina. When Barnum arose, he was a much changed man. For one thing, he was a bishop. But not of the Episcopal Church USA, whose collar he had worn for 14 years. He was now a missionary--to the U.S.--from the Episcopal Church of Rwanda, pledged against the American church's laxity. In another part of Denver, a former colleague of Barnum's described him and three others who were similarly consecrated last week in rather...