Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sits in Mass Hall pondering the cost of building a hotel, the legality of all-male clubs and the probability that shifting the Freshman dining services to Memorial Hall will cause a riot in the Union dorms. He hasn't had such trouble dealing with his land since Cambridge Mayor Al Vellucci suggested paving over Harvard Yard to alleviate Cambridge's parking problems...
Traditionally, such criticisms have been the domain of Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, whose creative attacks have often left Harvard officials' heads spinning...
...mayor is very critical in general," he says. "I'm much more critical on specific issues-payments in lieu of taxes... areas in which Harvard can help...
Koepp has applied his inquisitive mind to the news since he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and took a job as a reporter at the Waukesha (Wis.) Freeman (circ. 23,000). In 1980 he wrote an award-winning series that revealed how a small-town mayor was determined to spend $6 million of taxpayers' money to dredge a local lake, in part so his friends could use it for water-skiing. Koepp moved to TIME in 1981, and in five years as a writer he probed such topics as the declining quality of American service, national gridlock...
That year, Danehy angrily announced that he would spend his own money if necessary to set up the scene, presented the cash to then-Mayor Walter J. Sullivan Jr. and left the room...