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Pordum scored a coup in May when he won the endorsement of the AFL-CIO, which supported opponent Jack Quinn in 1994. This endorsement has meant funding and volunteers in what is always a daunting process: unseating an incumbent. Democratic big guns like Dick Gephardt and party celebrities like Patrick Kennedy have made appearances on Pordum's behalf. In this heavily Democratic district, the former teacher gives the party a real opportunity...
...PAUL QUINN-JUDGE joins TIME as Moscow bureau chief, a beat he is thoroughly familiar with, having spent six years there, from 1986 to 1992, as bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor and the Boston Globe. Along with a grounding in Russian language and history, he says, "the most crucial tool for understanding the place is a thorough knowledge of Monty Python. Only this enables you to fully grasp the whiplash-like changes, from comedy to tragedy and sobriety to surrealism." A nose for news helps: Quinn-Judge was already at work on a story about infighting...
...Because Peace Games has moved to a more student-centered program, we ask volunteers to become more a part of the school," said Meredith Moss Quinn '99, a Winthrop House resident who serves as site coordinator for the Mission Grammar School in Mission Hill...
...history most pointedly informing Michael Collins is not that of tragic Ireland but of lightsome Hollywood, making sure that past and principles don't weigh too heavily on a biopic's audience. You can see this in the bantering palship of Collins and his faithful sidekick Harry Boland (Aidan Quinn), and in the largely antic rivalry that develops between them over the affections of pert Kitty Kiernan (Julia Roberts). It's even there in the characterization of Eamon de Valera, President of the nascent Irish Republic. He's wonderfully played by Alan Rickman as a deeply devious neurasthenic...
Following after Lon Chaney, Charles Laughton, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Hopkins and a cartoon isn't easy. Neither is wearing a prosthetic hump for 17 hours a day, but when Turner Network Television offered MANDY PATINKIN The Hunchback (of Notre Dame), he jumped at it. "I don't know how you call yourself an actor if you turn down Quasimodo," says Patinkin. The actor thinks only one of his predecessors really counts. "Laughton, not Victor Hugo, wrote this part," he says. "I'm just playing his notes...