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...council put off a vote on the University’s proposal to dig a tunnel under Cambridge Street as part of the new center. Instead, they offered only the promise of more consultants and more meetings...
...recently as this winter Harvard officials had maintained that construction work on the new center would be underway by now. But they now concede they don’t have the votes they need on the council to clear the final hurdle—permission to dig the tunnel...
...That would be a good example of when I had to dig deep," says Shanahan, 39. Apart from being publicly profiled as pedophiles, priests have a job that is harder than ever. As always, people expect their priest to deliver inspiration on Sundays and know the name of every parishioner, to show up at the hospital at 4 a.m. and to keep the church financially solvent. And let's not forget he is supposed to be the face of Jesus. But now most Catholics have only one full-time priest, instead of the three or four their parents...
...Still, should a $1200 chopper ride and a little babysitting cause more of a flap than the $15 billion cost overrun for the Big Dig which occurred under the watch of her two male predecessors? Welcome to the Big Time, where the personal failure usually gets bigger headlines than an ongoing public one, as former President Clinton could have told her. She made certain the personal would be the political by setting a world record for long commutes, choosing to live in Williamstown, Massachusetts, nearly three hours from the capitol. Perhaps Massachusetts should provide housing. Yes, Boston real estate...
...great friend J.J. forgets to mention that. You see, we furnish him with items." J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster): "Yes, with your clients' names attached. That's the only reason the poor slobs pay you: to see their names in my column all over the world.... [Press agents also] dig up scandal about prominent people and shovel it thin among columnists who give them space." - dialogue from the film "Sweet Smell of Success...