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...some Kennedys toward elected office, or a sense of divine right? Do they represent the last gasp of an old order, or the first breath of a new one? "I definitely would not be where I am today if it weren't for my family name and connections," says Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy, 34, who used that name and those connections to shatter fund-raising records last year as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "I often joke that I'm the best example of why there should be campaign-finance reform...
...decade, Patrick Kennedy's career was set on fast forward. He had lived in Rhode Island just a year and was only a college sophomore when he decided to take on a 10-year incumbent for the state legislature in 1988. "Who's Patrick Kennedy?" Jack Skeffington asked when he heard about his upstart primary opponent. "Is it a big deal...
...Brad is the hundredth. He, a modest guy from Rhode Island, and would not put it this way, but we will: He is the exceptional exception...
...golfwise, what with trying to get my game right again after the wrist thing. But overall I?d say I had a pretty good year." Better than pretty good, in other ways: On September 15th at the Ritz in Boston, he remarried, to the aforementioned Dory. "Dory?s a Rhode Islander too," says Faxon. "Everything?s good right now-the golf, the wrist and best of all Dory...
...George Orwell taught us to beware of the sign on the wall reading: "Obey." It's best to get used to the idea. Way back in 1989, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate named Shepard Fairey started putting obscure stickers on buildings to promote a skateboard gang. They got attention and Fairey, inspired, kept slapping them up as a kind of mass psychology test: What does the average person make of a public sign that is, essentially, meaningless? The posters, stickers and spray-painted designs often bear the image of the late World Wrestling Federation star Andre the Giant...