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...soon as the project to build the third harbor tunnel was announced a few years ago, my father had predicted with chagrin that it would be named the "Thomas P. "Tip' O'Neill Tunnel." I liked it. The Tip O'Neill Tunnel. The Tip Tunnel. Tip's Tunnel to Town. It has a nice, absurd ring to it--unless, of course, you're a Republican. But in a city so unified on party lines, where Tip O'Neill seems to represent the personal interests of every man, woman and child, Republican governors don't have much choice...
...right, Angela, thumbs up." The painstaking task of separating the babies was expected to take all day, but after only 5 1/2 hours, the doctors reappeared, and the news was good. "Angela is stable, comfortable, and we hope that will continue to be the case," said Dr. James O'Neill Jr., the lead surgeon. At the same time, relatives were making funeral preparations...
...Wednesday doctors told the Lakebergs they would try to separate the pair. Though surgeon O'Neill would say that "there is a reasonable chance of success," he admitted that "if there is long-term survival, it would be unique." In fact, no conjoined twin with such a heart had lived beyond three months of separation...
...collection plate, and by the age of 10, he was giving his own sermons. After joining the CIA in 1975, he thrived on Third World crises. He loathed neckties and wore cowboy boots and sometimes a ten-gallon hat. But he was no cowboy on the job. Joseph O'Neill, who served with Woodruff in Africa and is now charge d'affaires in Eritrea, considered him a rock-steady operative who "knew exactly what he was getting into. When things were going bad," he recalls, "you'd count on Freddie to be quiet, thoughtful, and then go out and stick...
Maybe the Democrats need some charismatic leaders in the Congress to have a truly united liberal front. Gone are the days of Sam Rayburn, Tip O'Neill, and Robert Byrd. Maybe those politicians are just too worried about being re-elected by now-defunct Reagan Democrats. As for the "I need a new term to do even more good" excuse, it basically describes campaign rhetoric for the last hundred years...