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Tuesday, April 12. Robert F. Drinan discusses Can God and Caesar Coexist?: Balancing Religious Freedom and International Law. 7:30 p.m. First Parish Church. Admission free...
...sophomore at Harvard in 1970, making the rounds of pacifist political circles in an effort to win their backing for the abortive effort of his war-hero-turned-war-protester brother to put together a campaign for Congress that year. (The peace activists went instead for Father Robert Drinan.) Cam, a Boston lawyer, has been a presence in every Kerry campaign since then. But he has no evident aspirations to become the next Bobby Kennedy, preferring to stay behind the scenes in roles that carry no title. Although neither brother divulges what they talk about, Kerry aides take...
Cahill grew up in a part of Boston where politics "comes with your mother's milk," says Father Robert Drinan, the former Congressman of antiwar fame. He hired Cahill to answer phones in his office in 1976, when she graduated from Emmanuel College, a Catholic institution that was still all women at the time. The daughter of an Irish immigrant autoworker at General Motors' Framingham factory and a first-generation Irish-American homemaker, Cahill attributes her bossiness to being the eldest of six children (three boys, three girls) and says she honed her political reflexes at a dinner table...
...Drinan and others suggested that while Timperi’s is an extreme case, it speaks to broader trends throughout higher education...
...Definitely universities are paying a lot of attention to academic credentials,” Drinan said. “The pressure to get a terminal degree in hand is overwhelming...