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...These computers are vital for the young people so they can go out and get good jobs, but also are important for the middle aged and the seniors because computers are vital for simply being in society," said Boston city councilor Maura Hennigan...

Author: By Emily F. Oster, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GSE Profs. Will Lead Boston Center For Mentoring Children | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...that has parents passively stepping back and allowing their children to be force-fed images of sex and violence. To handle these powerful ideas, they need a larger reality than childhood affords. Are we so naive as to think our children will not suffer the consequences of these messages? MAURA C. WALSH Sierra Madre, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 6, 1998 | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

Richard Jemmons, the self-proclaimed redneck spin surgeon (played by Sling Blade's Billy Bob Thornton), is transparently James Carville. Daisy Green (Maura Tierney in the film) shares resumes with campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald. Libby Holden (Kathy Bates), the manic "dust buster" who tries to cover up Stanton's peccadillos before they make the tabs' front pages, is similar to Betsey Wright, Governor Clinton's chief of staff and trigger-happy troubleshooter. Lawrence Harris (Kevin Cooney), the New England Senator who runs against Stanton until being felled by a heart attack, could be the physically frail Paul Tsongas. Cashmere McLeod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Colors | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...line ("What went down on the way to the top") now had a Letterman leer, and the central mystery (Can Stanton cover up an affair with a young woman?) seemed less like satire than prophecy. But, of course, the timing was just a fluke of the Zeitgeist. As Maura Tierney says, "The reality is something very serious, and the movie is something we made in Hollywood, based on a book that came out more than two years ago. It doesn't seem the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Colors | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Another spectator, Maura Pensak, called thevoting "pretty pathetic," saying that she was"disturbed that there was obviously an agreementmade by Duehay to vote for another party becausehe voted...

Author: By Neeraj K. Gupta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Duehay Elected Mayor in Bizarre Vote | 1/28/1998 | See Source »

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