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...hope of blending in. Quickly, it became clear to me that the street where the Great White Men—George Washington and Alexander Hamilton—were inaugurated and buried, respectively, was still the domain of white men of questionable greatness. In New York’s financial district, I was a woman in a place run by men and for men: the cigar-smoking, Wall Street Journal-toting men who think green and carry themselves with a self-importance that makes the Harvard man look, well, modest...
...mayor Robert Kennedy says. The mills were boarded up, and houses were burned out. In the overwhelmingly Italian and Irish community, people knew their neighbors and their neighbors' cousins twice removed. And nobody knew Kerry, who had parachuted into Lowell because it was part of the state's Fifth District and the congressional seat was open. Locals would later call the maneuver "Kerrymandering...
Reinstein died in 1998, but his daughter Kathi-Anne Reinstein remembers him telling her the tale. "My father was a complete comedian," says Reinstein, who now represents the district her father once did. But she says the rest of the story is more instructive. "Kerry and his office did call my father up and say, 'We're sorry. We get it. We're going to do better.' And anytime I have called John Kerry's office, they have been amazing. He's absolutely fantastic to me and my district...
Last year, after a police officer's widow in Reinstein's district had packed all her belongings, she was told she could not move into federally subsidized housing because she made $38 more than the maximum allowed. Reinstein asked Kerry's office for help. A staff member immediately called the woman and her son, Reinstein remembers. "The son called me in tears ... All of a sudden, [he's] getting calls from Senator Kerry's office. You don't understand how much that means." The woman was accepted into the housing complex. Today, whenever Reinstein sees Kerry, he always remembers...
...PAVEL RAHMAN/AP Children swim through flood waters in the Gaibandha district...