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Politicos who had expected a simple partisan split in the Cambridge City Council's decision on renewing City Manager Robert W. Healy's contract must be in shock...
...early age, she decided, to the shock of her parents, that she wanted to be a star pop singer. She began cultivating a trembling, soulful sound that eventually won her jobs in Paris nightclubs and made her a prominent voice on the Harvard campus, starring in musicals, soloing with a cappella groups and making appearances at jazz and rock shows...
...report on a boys' school is the church's latest shock...
...laude in economics. Her thesis adviser was Jeffrey Sachs, who went on to advise countries around the world on how to switch from controlled to free-market economies. "She had a certain extra dimension, a real analytical mind," he observes. "Her thesis concerned Japan's trade performance after each shock in oil prices during the '70s and '80s, and how the country paid for fuel by increasing exports. She devised computer work that was sophisticated, especially for an undergraduate...
...suits over misdeeds of clerics, and O'Connor warns that "a grenade could explode at any time, and another and another." He had reason to urge caution. Since 1984, most dioceses have been rocked by episodes of priestly abuse. And last week a long-awaited document administered a new shock to Midwest Roman Catholics...