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...with the Swinging '60s well under way, the museum world was feeling a bit cramped and stodgy to Hoving. That was the year he left the Met to serve as parks commissioner for New York City's newly elected mayor, John V. Lindsay, a dashing liberal Republican (there used to be such things) who was bringing a bit of Kennedy-style panache to the place people would soon be calling Fun City, though usually with tongue in cheek. Hoving fit the new mood perfectly. At the time, the city's parks could be rundown and even sinister, especially at night...
...family of John B. Edwards III ’10 filed a wrongful death suit against Harvard and two UHS professionals last week, alleging that Edwards’ doctors negligently prescribed the young man a cocktail of four drugs that contributed to his suicide in November...
Other speakers in Kirkland’s series have included Reverend Al Sharpton, Mass. Senator John Kerry, and former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean...
...former economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was recently invited to the White House for a jobs summit, is more aghast at the vagueness of the speech. "He did not give one dollar figure," says Holtz-Eakin. "He did not explain how anything is being paid...
...elderly and disabled who need care (Medicare does not cover long-term nursing-home stays, and Medicare funding for home health care would be cut under health reform); to critics, it's a fiscally unsound budget gimmick, "a classic definition of a Ponzi scheme," as Republican Senator John Thune of South Dakota described it late last week. (See 10 players in health care reform...