Word: flynn
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...Clearly, he's voted one way on some issues and now changed his position," Walsh said. "My impression is that if [Boston Mayor] Ray Flynn told him to jump off a building, he'd do it, and I think that's not good leadership...
...persuade Judge Sand to modify his ruling. Grandstanding politicians in the Yonkers stalemate could find a guiding example of courageous leadership in Boston. Neighborhood resistance to the integration of public projects in Irish South Boston is at least as intense as that in the New York suburb. Mayor Ray Flynn, who lives in Southie, began his political career in the mid-1970s as a community leader in the disastrous fight against school desegregation. But now Flynn is working with black and white community groups and federal officials to resolve rather than raise conflict. Last month two black families became...
Neil Sullivan, policy advisor to Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, blamed the predicament of the homeless, who number an estimated 3500 in Boston, on Reagan administration cutbacks in public housing construction...
Scandal was the sea in which Capote swam. Clarke quotes Capote's story, for instance, of his not-very-electric sexual fling with Errol Flynn, and of a tender interlude with John Garfield ("one of the nicest people I've ever known. My mother saw him just once and tried to get him into bed with her"). Capote used such shockers to draw corresponding admissions from subjects he interviewed. Clarke's breezy and sympathetic account inevitably teems with them and is sure to keep tongues wagging busily through the summer...
...question of how important teaching abilityshould be in tenure considerations has beenshelved this year, as the council's AcademicsCommittee has focused on efforts to improve theadvising system and to increase student-facultyexchange within departments. Todd Flynn, chairmanof the committee, said that the first step towardincreasing student involvement in education policycomes by arranging student-faculty committeeswithin documents...