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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former Somerville mayor and current City Clerk William J. Donovan, a political antagonist of Marie Howe and who admits having "no great love" for the Howes, had his property assessment raised by Howe from $10,600 to $14,000 in 1976. Howe says the property was previously under-valued, and that the 40-per-cent assessment increase was long overdue. But the property itself had no buildings that could have increased in value. "The land was vacant," Donovan remembers. "He couldn't justify the assessment." Donovan, too, received an abatement from the rest of the city's assessors...

Author: By Mark A. Feldstein, COPYRIGHT 1978, THE HARVARD CRIMSON, INC. | Title: Howe Family May Have Used Taxes For Political Advantage in Somerville | 11/3/1978 | See Source »

SELF-CONSCIOUS. Dirk Bogarde's Herman Hermann watches every move he makes through an invisible movie camera. He's constantly framed by windows, doorways, odd rectangular objects. He poses, preens, acts for us. About to make love to his moist, hefty wife, he makes sure that the door of his room is wide open, glancing down the hall where the camera sits. But he never looks into it. He's too professional. Or maybe it isn't there. Or maybe it is. Or maybe this is a screwy movie...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Imperfect Despair | 11/1/1978 | See Source »

...make sacrifices in my career," she continues. "I'd love the chance to be a vice president in a major teaching hospital. It's something I don't have the time to do and still fulfill my family responsibilities--and it's the kind of job I won't be offered if I start looking too late...

Author: By Joan Feigenbaum, | Title: The 'New Girl Network' | 11/1/1978 | See Source »

...Because we lack love, we have not succeeded in coming together," Dr. Richard Quebedeaux said last night in a speech at Sperry Hall in the Divinity School about his efforts to unite conservative evangelicals and more liberal Christians...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Theology | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

Anthony Marino, mayor of Lynn, told the president how everyone was feeling. "Mr. President, Welcome to Lynn, we love you very, very much. And then to the crowds, "Well, how do you like it?" They liked it--a lot--even if he was endorsing a Massachusetts Meldrim Thompson for governor. Even if he didn't know anything about...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Said the Peanut to the King | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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