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...trade is putting out fires," said Fire Department Chief Kevin J. Fitzgerald, one of three commissioners. "But my real trade is keeping them-from starting. Have you ever signed [a form] where you have to list a dead person?" Fitzgerald asked Sullivan...
...this there were a few events of the year that touched people's better natures. Moments of silence occurred for Barbara Jordan, Cardinal Bernardin, Joseph Mitchell, James Rouse, George Burns, Claudette Colbert, Ella Fitzgerald and others of value whose deaths recalled what was valuable. At Ella's death the radio played the songs she graced, like Cole Porter's In the Still of the Night, and for a while a voice filled the air that hit every note on the note, sang words that meant something and infused heartbreak with...
...Boylston professorship which Heaney will vacate is one of the University's oldest and most distinguished chairs. The position was first occupied by John Quincy Adams in the early 1800s, and was later held by poets Archibald MacLeish and Robert Fitzgerald...
...last week's good news traveled in a sort of endless loop around the stock price, which remained locked at about $130. If, as F. Scott Fitzgerald famously remarked, there are no second acts in American lives, they are even rarer in American business recoveries. Act One, of course, will be familiar to most of our audience from the recent performance of AT&T: fire nearly everyone in sight. It's Act Two--creating sustainable, profitable growth--that seems to be the tricky part. Companies such as K Mart have performed brilliantly in the Sweeney Todd role, slicing overhead...
...story and manipulates action. The certitude of Dickens or Tolstoy, who peopled their worlds like gods, is denied to 20th century writers who must cope with ironies and layers of deconstruction (one strategy is to distance the reader from the hero and keep him a mystery, as F. Scott Fitzgerald did in The Great Gatsby). So pity Mona Simpson, a talented young novelist (Anywhere but Here) whose new book, A Regular Guy (Knopf; 372 pages; $25), begins with this sentence: "He was a man too busy to flush toilets." Does any superman survive that? It's not that this...