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Until, that is, one realizes that Martha's Vineyard is really a very unusual sort of place in terms of the highly limited but highly visible and well-known crowd it attracts. If you graduated from Phillips Andover, Exeter, Groton, St. Paul's, Middlesex, Concord Academy or any New England prep school within the last five years, chances are that you'll run into someone from your eleventh grade English class waiting in line for ice cream in Oak Bluffs...
John Sununu, 46, is not just another well-heeled computer buff. He is the Governor of New Hampshire, and the data he pores over so diligently represent the state's $1 billion in annual expenditures. Using the computer and modem in his office in Concord, he can punch in his name and secret password, log on to the state's IBM 4361 mainframe computer, and get a quick reading, in glowing green digits, of the state's financial health: room-and-meal tax returns ($30.3 million as of last November); business profits taxes ($28.4 million); out-of-town travel expenses...
Massachusetts has always been ahead of its time. The Pilgrims of Plymouth engendered an idea and a commonwealth. The Minutemen of Lexington and Concord triggered a revolution and a republic. High-minded, contrary and steadfastly liberal, Massachusetts either led the parade or refused to march. It is the cradle not only of liberty but of imagination: John Harvard conceived of a college; Emerson and Thoreau inspired the intellectual flowering of New England; William Lloyd Garrison sparked the abolitionist movement that split a country. The state's hybrid heritage--Puritan and Pilgrim, fisherman and farmer, Yankee and immigrant--combined to form...
...Concord, N.H., Christa McAuliffe, the schoolteacher whose presence on Challenger was intended to herald a now postponed era of routine space flight, was buried on a hilltop some two miles from the high school where she taught. At Arlington National Cemetery, Navy Commander Mike Smith, Challenger's pilot, was buried with military honors on Saturday. Mission Commander Dick Scobee, a former Air Force officer, will also be interred there. The wife of Payload Specialist Gregory Jarvis asked that his remains be cremated so his ashes could be scattered into the Pacific near his home in Hermosa Beach, Calif. A military...
Speaking as a holder of three degrees from Harvard, I was ashamed of the performance of the Harvard Band this morning in the annual April 19th parade in Concord...