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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...area that constitutes the Bay State's Eighth Congressional District has launched the political careers of a succession of notable Democrats: Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, President John F. Kennedy, House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Last week another famous name was added to the list: Joseph Kennedy II swept past ten other candidates for the Democratic primary nomination to replace O'Neill in Washington next year...
...genuinely concerned with the drug problem would spend more time and money on drug education and rehabilitation and less on attempts to punish drug dealers. Yet Reagan continues to pour money into border patrol programs that have proven utterly ineffective while there remains a three to six-month waiting list for treatment at New York City drug addiction centers...
...this is the first time Harvard is marketing its name in officially-sanctioned "commemorabilia." Here's an unofficial list of 350th souvenirs still on sale--three weeks after The Event...
...GUIDE IS most useful and enjoyable when the respondents describe books that meant much to them in a personal, non-professional, sense. Alan Brinkley, for instance, submitted a list of books which "have given me particular pleasure." Knowing why he likes Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! or why particular books on Law Professor Martha Minow's shelf "are so worn from re-reading--or missing from the shelf altogether because I keep insisting that someone else read them" is interesting stuff. This book would be a lot better if there were more of it. But there...
Perhaps all would be the wiser if they heeded the words of Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow, who refused to submit a list. "I care not for this cargo cult," he writes. "Books are cheap and readily available. To read is the thing, voraciously and eclectically. No guide is needed...