Word: michaell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Politicians with elections soon ahead of them were especially quick to pick up the antitax cry. Seeking to unseat Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis, who has been tightfisted himself. Republican Candidate Edward F. King is pushing an amendment that would put a cap of 9% of total personal income on all taxes levied in the state...
According to one of the author's informants, a psychologist named Michael Fox, about 80% of all human communication consists of nonverbal gestures. Dogs are ever watchful of their master's changing stance and expression, a genetic inheritance from their wolf past when subtle shifts in packmates' ears, eyes or tails communicated fear or aggression...
Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Graduate and Young Professional Society. Brunch, 11 a.m., in PBH. Speaker: Michael Kort, "Affirmative Action and the Jewish Community." $2 admission...
...against the fates over a vast and richly colored terrain, ranging rom the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s to the Kennedy era of the '60s. Brady plunges into the rebellion: he captains a bloody ambush and emerges as hero and cherished aide to the historical patriot Michael Collins, whose negotiating team he accompanies to England. But the resulting treaty triggers civil war at home, and Brady's family, save for infant Micko, is wiped out. Bitterly, Colman and son embark for America...
There he rides the coattails of a rising Boston politician named James Michael Curley. Because the Curley machine needs Boston's Italian North End in its pocket, Brady arranges a pardon for a notorious Sicilian Mafioso named Gennaro Anselmo. Dishonesty continues to lure Brady: he builds an insurance empire through which his new friend Gennaro sluices his racketeer's profits. Carroll's message is an old one: with such mortally dangerous friends, one needs no enemies. Time and again, the man who won his first fame by setting up an ambush is himself waylaid by his friends...