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...Iowa caucus as an accurate measure more seriously than the New Hampshire primary," insists Writer Madson. Its political system is almost free of corruption. Its kids always score among the top on national exams. "The accident of the caucuses in Iowa is a happy accident," declares Novelist Frank Conroy, a transplanted Easterner...
...party, a tenor sings an old air, The Lass of Aughrim. This puts Gretta Conroy (Anjelica Huston) in a pensive mood: a delicate young man she once loved, and who hastened his death by courting her, used to sing it. In their hotel room, Gretta tells her husband Gabriel (Donal McCann) about this lost love, arousing an unworthy jealousy. She falls asleep, and he stares out the window, as the snow -- symbol of the universe's indifference to petty social preoccupations and petty emotions too -- falls "upon all the living and the dead." Nature, playing no favorites, blankets them...
...Conroy said that since the foundation exists solely to benefit the college, "the president could request the funds [he paid for the land] on behalf of the college." However, under no circumstances could he use those funds for personal reasons, Conroy said...
...major question in the current investigation is whether the chairman of the Board of Trustees, Vincent Magno, did indeed sign the papers agreeing to Indelicato's purchase of the land, Conroy said. Magno denies that the signature is his, according to an article in The Boston Globe...
...Conroy praised Indelicato as "an excellent president who did many fine things for the college, including increasing minority recruitment of staff and students, and strengthening the admissions procees and the sports program...