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Following the local industrialist on the appointments list is the physics laureate. He is terminally ill. When he dies, one of the most remarkable minds in science will die with him. Reproductive chance might one day produce another scientist just as gifted, but there is no telling when. The physics...
Joshua A. Kaufman '98, in an editorial dated February 13, 1997, gifted us with his profound thoughts on the motivations and character of the opponents of the multicultural center. It was not a surprise to find that his column quickly degenerated into a series of mind-numbingly repetitive attacks against...
With Delno and Ida working almost all the time, informal supervision of the kids fell to the Filipino war bride who lived across the street and the sharp-eyed Italian grandmothers who had raised their own children on South Elmwood Place. Frank worked for a Jewish grocer from the time...
The advice here, however, is to stick with The Friends of Freeland (Knopf; 508 pages; $26), an amiable and decidedly quirky novel. Its narrator, Eggert Oddason, is chief speechwriter and grand vizier to Freeland's President, a gifted though alcoholic giant named Hannibal Hannibalsson. After 20 years of ever decreasing...
His Kids' experiences in Jamaica Plain stand in marked contrast to his own childhood in Cambridge. Hill became known around the city in the early 1970s as a gifted athlete.