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...known John Whitehead for 35 years,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg writes in an e-mail. “I don’t think there is anyone better suited to head the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation...
...Public Affairs Alan J. Stone offered a new reason for optimism when he assured a crowd of local officials that he would improve Harvard’s transparency, long a major roadblock to earning the community’s trust. January brought more potential for progress, with newly-elected Mayor Michael A. Sullivan vowing to make town-gown relations a major priority of his term. The city council’s creation of the Committee on University Relations that same month represented fruitful effort toward improving communication and making long-term planning and development cooperative rather than confrontational...
Local politics was even more horrific than national politics. A man named James Michael Curley ran for mayor of Boston from a jail cell. Although none of us could vote, Radcliffe and Harvard students formed an organization called “Citizens for Hynes” and worked tirelessly to elect a relative unknown candidate, John B. Hynes, who won and after whom the present-day Hynes Convention Center is named. That exhilarating experience gave me a life-long love of politics and an extraordinary appreciation that miracles can occur if hard, hard work is a component...
...York, Prescott championed the establishment of the Medical Center Nursery School at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. She organized a group of the hospital’s mothers, battled the opposition of the city’s buildings department—and the hospital itself—and even telegraphed the mayor...
...Mayor Edward A. Crane ’35 appointed Sullivan chairman of a special committee to confer with University officials on student parking. This followed a lengthy discussion of the situation in last Monday’s City Council meeting...