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...compete in epee and sabre as well as foil, rolled to a 26-1 triumph. Weapon leaders Kevin McCarthy (sabre), Ray Carthy (foil) and Jim O'Neill (epee) each went undefeated...
They could be Eugene O'Neill's soul-wizened Tyrones, or an extended Chekhovian family chatting its way toward collapse, or the Ewings under sedation. And Tarkovsky is happy to display them in their dolors, at his pace, with all the spare majesty of his style. In the morning, Alexander celebrates his birthday by planting a tree with his son -- an ordinary bucolic tableau, captured in a ravishing shot that lasts almost ten minutes. That afternoon, when the daughter playfully balances a pear on the doctor's knee, it seems a daring bit of coquetry; nothing more need be revealed...
...eldest male among the 28 cousins who make up the third Kennedy generation. In 1979, after a checkered academic past, Kennedy formed Citizens Energy, a nonprofit corporation that distributes low-cost heating oil in Massachusetts. Throughout his race for the Cambridge seat being vacated by House Speaker Tip O'Neill, Kennedy has campaigned on a platform of fiscal responsibility, shunning the kind of straightforward, do-good liberalism that he advocated in his younger days...
Harvard University, the largest property ownerin Cambridge, feels that an increase is necessary,said Jacqueline O'Neill, associate vice presidentof community affairs. "There has to be a generalrent increase because rents cannot remainstagnant," she said. "Periodic reviews andincreases of rent are needed to maintain some ofthe older buildings in the area...
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. had two political forebears. His father, a Boston city councilman, taught him the give-and-take of local politics: ringing doorbells, listening to constituents, handing out favors. Then, when O'Neill went to Washington in 1953 after winning Massachusetts' 8th Congressional District (John F. Kennedy's old seat), he was adopted by the savvy John McCormack, dean of the Massachusetts delegation and later Speaker of the House. McCormack opened doors for him, and today O'Neill calls his "father-son" relationship with McCormack his "greatest break...