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Moakley’s death this spring after a protracted battle with leukemia kicked off the first open race in the Ninth Congressional District since the Nixon administration and has drawn national attention to the nine contenders—seven Democrats and two Republicans—seeking to represent the increasingly diverse district, a mixture of suburban communities and the working-class neighborhood of South Boston popularly known as “Southie...
...suggested Mike Ockrent, Stro's husband, who had directed Crazy for You. I told Tom that was the best show I had seen in years. Stro choreographed it. Tom and I were talking to Mike in earnest about directing our show when, tragically, he was found to have leukemia and died. Susan, naturally, was devastated, but we thought it might actually be good for her to take over the reins. We knew she could direct; after all, she had just finished Contact...
...representative said I had been dropped because I had failed to send in a renewal form--odd, since my premiums were automatically billed to my credit-card account. I have always been conscientious about health insurance. I'm a single mom, and when my father died of leukemia 23 years ago, his coverage was the only thing that stood between my family and bankruptcy...
Thank you for the mostly encouraging article about new cancer treatments [CANCER UPDATE, May 28]. However, you said, "If you have cancer today, these treatments are likely to come too late to help you." I respectfully disagree. I was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia more than seven years ago, long before the development of Gleevec. While previous attempts to defeat the leukemia were not totally successful, they did keep me alive long enough to be accepted as a participant in one of the studies of Gleevec. This new drug worked its wonders, and in just three months I achieved complete...
DIED. JOE MOAKLEY, 74, a 15-term Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts; of leukemia; in Bethesda, Md. South Boston-born and--bred, Moakley often fought for federal funds on behalf of his hometown, cleaning up Boston Harbor and rerouting a major city highway. In 1989 he headed an investigation into the deaths of six Jesuit priests and their companions in El Salvador, a probe that helped end U.S. military aid to that country...