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...place: she was a wife and mother first and, above all, protective of her nine children, fiercely ambitious for them. And she withstood the misfortunes of her life with fortitude. But to call her a matriarch and leave it at that shows how much we forget. It was Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy--more than her brash and dashing husband, more than the glamorous daughter-in-law she outlived, even more than her martyred sons--who forged the Kennedy character. It was Rose Kennedy, in reality, who played mythmaker to America's most mythic clan...
...pedigree, like her father's before her and her children's after, was politics. The oldest child of Josephine Hannon and John Fitzgerald, she was born on July 22, 1890. Her father, Honey Fitz, who eventually became mayor of Boston in 1906, was the quintessential ward politician: he joined every club, attended every wedding, wept at every wake and kept Rose, his favorite child, close by his side. Though Rose had wanted to attend Wellesley, her parents dispatched her and her sister Agnes to a convent in the Netherlands. In the beginning, she was desperately lonely, but eventually...
...Cornell's one of the best teams in the Ivy League," senior Meredith Fitzgerald (second in 3000 m, 10:09.02 said. "I lost to a girl that has won the heptagonals three times. Going to practice was a little sporadic over exam period, [but] Cornell's also a very good team...
...Fasciano is survived by by his father, Alphonse of Somerville; his wife Meade; children Robin Fasciano-Gianis of Easthampton, N.Y., Karen of Melrose and Robert Fasciano of Baltimore; brothers William of East Sandwich and John of Reading; and sisters Marie Fitzgerald and Janet Carey of Reading...
SENIOR EDITORS: Lee Aitken, Charles P. Alexander, Howard Chua-Eoan, James Collins, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Marta Fitzgerald Dorion (Operations), Nancy Gibbs, Bruce Handy, Johanna McGeary, Priscilla Painton, Barrett Seaman (Special Projects...