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Started in 1983 by a group of Currier Housestudents to raise money for the HAND project inthe Jefferson Park area of Cambridge, the marathonhas since expanded to all houses' HAND programs
...Kennedy II, and, in the order they spoke, State Representatives William Galvin (D-Brighton), Thomas Vallely (D-Back Bay) and Thomas Gallagher (D-Allston); Bachrach; James Roosevelt; James Spiegel; Carla Johnston; and former Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King. The Republicans taking part were Clark Abt and Mildred Fay Jefferson, a new entrant in the race...
...Jefferson, a physician, summarized herconservative stand by saying, "An enlightenedcapitalism is the only hope of the downtrodden,the disposessed, the disadvantaged, and the leftout...
...never say "One if by land, two if by sea," and all that, but he never even got to Concord to warn the Minutemen of the oncoming British. Nathan Hale probably never said on the gallows, "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Jefferson preached that all men are equal, but he kept slaves, and so did Washington. And Betsy Ross never sewed that first American flag either...
...four Soviet writers jetted to the U.S. to join Shalnev. They checked into the Madison Hotel, one of capitalism's lush decampments. The White House crew asked them to lunch at another sophisticated watering hole in the Jefferson Hotel. There was much laughter and goodwill and joking about Gorbachev's cutting down Soviet vodka and, of course, a hearty round of Bloody Marys for the occasion...