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First try: Crimson reporter walks in the church, right past two police officers and a Secret Service agent. No questions, no problem. The reporter sashays up next to a 50-something man who, pen and pad in hand, also looks like a reporter...
Back in the press pen constructed by barricades on the church steps, reporters are getting ready for the arrival of O'Neill's invited guests. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 shows up, first granting copious interviews. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II is next. Then the celebrity parade begins: U.S. Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.), Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, Gov. William F. Weld '66, state Attorney General Scott Harshbarger '64, State Senate President William Bulger, as well as myriad local politicians, including the entire Cambridge City Council...
...slots and blackjack tables are, astoundingly, quite separate from and mostly concealed by the Disneyesque fun and games. The bells and whistles are more prominent and accessible than the casino itself, and are not merely a cute, quick way to divert people as they proceed into the fleecing pen. The MGM Grand has gone further: it spent hundreds of millions of | dollars extra to build an adjacent but entirely separate amusement park, cramming seven rides (three involving fake rivers) and eight "themed areas" onto 33 acres, less than a 10th the size of Disney World...
Jean-Marie Le Pen's right-wing National Front wins 12.5% of the vote in parliamentary elections with anti-immigrant rhetoric...
...calls "in some respects psychologically an even more unstable work than Mein Kampf," recounts in minute detail the slights -- both real and imagined -- that made Zhirinovsky's Kazakhstan childhood an unrelenting horror. In addition to revisiting the many injustices of poverty ("in school one girl had a ball-point pen and I didn't") and listing the names of boys who beat him up, the author bitterly recalls the misery of life in a communal apartment ("I slept on a trunk"), the lines to the toilet ("it smelled bad") and his first attempt at sexual intercourse. Its consummation was thwarted...