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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortunately for Jane, the shuttle came quickly. Fortunately for me too, because I felt a little weird about going into a pub at 9 a.m. in front of a bunch of nurses. But clearly that was my next step. If you stand at the subway entrance, without taking a single step you can see the Cornerstone, the Quiet Man, Triple O's, Cronin's and Ahmane's pubs. If you move at all, you can see more. And on every side of the pubs were the factories and the billboards...
...grey lady in a bright red dress was standing in front of another picture of Richard Cardinal Cushing--this one was signed. She looked at my reporter's notebook and asked suspiciously who I was. "How long has this school been here?" I asked. I can repeat questions...
...which he would make his plans known. The night before the ad was scheduled to air, White approached Peter Lucas, a columnist for the Boston Herald, and told him he intended to run for reelection. Citing as a source "a close friend" of White's, the Herald ran a front-page story with a banner headline, "White Will Run." White had never intended to run, and used his commercial as a farewell to the people of Boston, gaining great satisfaction by getting revenge on Lucas, who had long been a critic of his administration...
During the school desegregation controversy, Boston Archbishop John Cardinal Cushing prevailed to pressure from pro-busing advocates, and tried to appeal to Hicks, a devout Catholic, to cease her crusade. Cushing told Hicks he had been asked to to march in protest with a group of Blacks in front of the Boston School Committee headquarters. According to Hicks, she said to the Cardinal, "Why don't you do that, Your Eminence, then come upstairs and receive my resignation...
Further down the street, some children played hide and seek between the parked cars. In front of them, tourists paused to snap photos of the iron fire escapes and stained glass windows on the narrow street. Overlooking it all stood the Old North Church, watching this scene impassionately as it has so many others since Paul Revere hung his lanterns there...