Word: connors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roommate or friend takes Zoloft or Prozac to control depression. My girlfriend does. It's also possible somebody you know takes Ventalin or Aerobid for asthma. When's the last time you heard a Ventalin joke? Mental illness is a disease, not a disgrace. Remember that. Tab>--Pete O'Connor...
...houses. The sukkah, which functions as an outdoor house used by Jews to celebrate their harvest holiday, was put up by Dunster's Allston Burr Senior Tutor Suzi Naiburg and numerous interested students. Dissent emerged on two separate fronts: one, the refusal of Dunster Superintendent Joseph O'Connor to allow residents to play volleyball on the lawn, and two, the use of the Sukkah to celebrate a Harvest Moon Festival combining the Jewish holiday with features of the pagan Thargelia festival and the Chinese Zhong Zie Jie. On the volleyball dilemma, we pass no judgment. But on the celebration...
Replying to concerns that such a monument would "open a floodgate" of requests from other ethnic groups for similar monuments, O'Connor cited monuments of African Americans, Polish Americans and Italian Americans, asking the Commission, "Aren't you drawing the line with the memorial, Mayor Sheila Doyle Russell insisted the Common has always been "a place where all are equal, all are welcome, and all are recognized and remembered as contributors to our community's collective heritage...
Funding for the proposed memorial would come from the Cambridge Celtic Arts Society, which will augment a $25,000 donation from O'Connor with additional fundraising efforts, according to the society's president, John C. Flaherty...
...Connor sees a larger purpose to constructing the memorial...