Word: edward
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...late Michael A. Sullivan was City Councillor from 1936 until 1949; he was succeeded by his son, Edward J. Sullivan, who presided as Mayor in 1956 to 1957 and is currently the Clerk of Court in Middlesex County. Walter J. Sullivan, an Independent--or moderate conservative--presently serving his third term as Mayor of Cambridge, has been on the City Council since...
...cutline with a photo of five Harvard Nobel laureates in the October 16 Crimson incorrectly identified one Nobel winner. He is Edward Purcell, University Professor Emeritus...
...Holy See does not have a fixation on the United States." Indeed, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Vatican doctrinal office, having dispensed with Curran, faces no other imminent decisions in the U.S., and two weeks ago turned toward Europe, issuing a formal rebuke of a theologian in the Netherlands, Edward Schillebeeckx. His offense: proposing that lay Catholics could celebrate Mass in unusual situations...
...blow that finally doomed Administration lobbying efforts came from South Africa. In telephone conversations with two farm-state G.O.P. Senators, Iowa's Charles Grassley and Nebraska's Edward Zorinsky, Pik Botha warned that imposition of sanctions would result in retaliatory measures from Pretoria. South Africa would not only refuse to import any more American wheat (it bought 256,000 tons in the year ending last June) but also block grain deliveries to neighboring black states that depend on South Africa for commercial transport. Both Senators had been buttonholed near the Senate cloakroom by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, a friend...
...forests, particularly those in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Deforestation at the hands of loggers, farmers, ranchers and mining concerns, says Norman Myers, an environmental consultant based in Oxford, England, may result in the eradication of 1 million species by the end of the century. Harvard Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson concurs. "The extinctions ongoing worldwide," he says, "promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs...