Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the summer, Nhan Truong met with Terene Mech, Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn's liaison to the Cambodian community, to discuss the feasibility of the program. Mech introduced Nhan Truong to several Cambodian families in Allston-Brighton. "They [the children] lived in crowded homes. Their parents had to work all day and did not know enough English to help them with their school work," she said. "You always hear about the top Asian students, but these kids were culturally disadvantaged and isolated in so many ways...
...myself as then-mayor of Cambridge and on behalf of those who were forced to evacuate the building, I extend a thunderous "Thank You" to the officials and staff at Harvard's Freshman Union who provided food to the victims during the course of the emergency...
Koch, a perennial Post favorite, led the charge against Kennedy. Saying that the Senator's action revealed a "character flaw," the mayor added in a veiled reference to Chappaquiddick, "In the dead of night, and then by the way not to immediately own up to it. We've seen that before...
...dark double-breasted suit stood ramrod straight while Edward Koch introduced him at a city hall press conference. Then Richard R. Green, freshly appointed chancellor of the New York City school system, biggest (939,142 students) and arguably the baddest in all the land, said to the mayor, "Why don't you be seated?" Koch complied, like a schoolboy whom the principal has put in his place. And when His Honor tried later to rise, the Big Apple's new headmaster froze him with a turn of the hand...
...York's Mayor Edward Koch wants to call it quits. He stood in front of two East Side cinemas last week, yelling "Scab!" at those who were bold enough to pay the admission. Nobody listened. Broadcast News was a sellout and Nuts was not. The message: people pay to see the films they want to see -- and can't be paid to see the others. Indeed, the mayor broke his own boycott to see Ironweed, which, he complained to Variety afterward, "wasn't even worth...