Word: fellow
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Vito Marzullo had the shock of his life last week. The former alderman, 91, awoke one morning to find his own obituary on the front page of the Chicago Tribune. There was consolation in the encomiums by fellow pols, who hailed Marzullo as the "dean" of Windy City politics. The embarrassed Tribune, still renowned for its DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN headline in 1948, launched an investigation of the gaffe. It turned out that Marzullo's brother-in-law, who lived in the same building, had passed away...
...constitution. "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration!" he bellowed. School officials blasted a threatening countermessage over loudspeakers: "Go back to your classes! Don't give in to pressure from your fellow students! Beware of the consequences to yourself and your family...
...adjourned. Let me tell you that when the meeting had been forced to adjourn, I was at first elated by this Pyrrhic victory, thinking something to the effect of "that will show them." Show what? I now wonder. Show that even at Harvard, undergraduates can be shouted down by fellow undergraduates...
What he said in private: "We can say we don't have a quorum and then we're okay."--Lee, before the public adjournment as he justified his actions to fellow council members, according to a Crimson tape...
...Robert P. Wolff '54, executive director of Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid, who criticized Glimp for helping a fellow alumnus to publish an advertisement against "single issue" Board of Overseers candidates...