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...Gerald Sullivan and Michael Kenney...
...TAKES guts to try saying anything new about a campaign that already has been covered to a sodden, whimpering death by every political reporter in the country, not to mention Japanese TV and the Frankfurter Allgemeine. Fortunately for posterity--and political junkies in other states--Messrs. Sullivan and Kenney took up this challenge and wrote a book about the race to succeed Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill in Congress. Unfortunately for those of us who remember the race, their book is no more original than its title...
However, a book ought to go beyond even the best daily newspaper in making sense of events. Kenney and Sullivan had nearly a year to put the race in perspective and tell us what it all meant for American politics in the 1980's. They could have said a lot of things that daily reporters couldn't or didn't because they were too close to the race to understand...
...this charge, Kenney said that she meant that, as an alderman, she would have more influence to bring about changes which she personally cared about. Divestment and housing the homeless "are things that I have been personally involved with and as an alderwoman I would continue to be a spokeswoman for these issues," Kenney said...
Junior Lisa Valentovish is the Republican candidate opposing Kenney and Michaelson for the seat on New Haven's board of thirty representatives who run the city along with Mayor Biagio DiLieto. The three students are vying to represent to the first ward, which is composed almost entirely of Yale students...