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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using that model, O'Neill established community committees to compromise on the height of the parking garage next to the Kennedy School, and convinced the University to back off a proposed bridge between the Fogg and Sackler Art Museums...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: From Community Awareness... | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

Local politicians grant that O'Neill may be an important asset for Harvard, in that she helps the University understand the needs of the community, but they do not acknowledge her influence helping the community understand Harvard. "The University's quiver isn't filled with arrows of community achievement, but Jackie has been careful to involve people--she has managed to have an impact on Harvard," says City Councilor Francis H. Duehay...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: From Community Awareness... | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

Another O'Neill in Politics...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: From Community Awareness... | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

...year ago, rumor had it that O'Neill was planning to take a shot at her father-in-law Tip's seat in the House of Representatives. The National Women's Political Caucus, looking for a female candidate for the Eighth Congressional race, asked O'Neill to run. According to her husband, Thomas P. O'Neill III, former lieutenant governor, she did seriously consider taking up the offer. "She's the most electable O'Neill," he says. "She's throughly liberal with a sense of humor, and that stands out in a crowd...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: From Community Awareness... | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

Long-time Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci says if O'Neill had run, she would have won, "and they'd have had the first woman Congressman in this district." O'Neill's Italian heritage--her maiden name is DeMartino--would have appealed to the Eighth, one-third Italian, Vellucci says, but when he tried to convince her to run, "she just flashed a big, pretty smile...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: From Community Awareness... | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

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