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Martin D. Finnegan, the company's marketing manager, said the beer has "nothing to do" with the university in Cambridge...
...beer company in Lowell used the name"Harvard" from 1898 until it closed in 1956, sothe new lager represents the resurrection of anold Lowell tradition, Finnegan said...
...simply on the history of our city,"Finnegan said...
...Antelope Valley's skinhead fringe Finnegan sees a new kind of despairing descent of the white middle class intersecting on the way down with upwardly mobile blacks moving into the valley. In the black community of New Haven, bitterly set cheek-by-jowl with the neverland of Yale, Finnegan allows himself a generalization about "structural unemployment--the cruelest edge of the American economy's deindustrialization and increasing reliance on untrained, insecure labor, and a close cousin to the pervasive undereducation in public schools in poor and working-class neighborhoods...
Absolutely right. But Finnegan's book, a status report on the American Dream, gets its power the way a good novel does: from sheer story--the unpredictable, rich specifics of people's lives. Alas, every syllable of the book rings true...