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...office for long, and in 1994, Barry was reelected to a fourth mayoral term by the city’s overwhelmingly Democratic population. Lifelong liberals, my parents were for once divided. My mother exercised caution and voted Republican. In a fit of blind loyalty, my father stood behind Barry.I was 10 when Barry made his triumphant return to the mayor’s office, and I was more than a little confused. Washington is a place of politics and, theoretically, accountability. Men in suits arrive, and if they don’t do their jobs well, they are eventually replaced...
...Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his classmates posed for a photo at their Harvard Law School reunion Saturday, an odd figure stood behind the photographer. A group of law students, one of whom wore an orange jumpsuit and a black hood, stood at the bottom of the steps of Langdell Hall and shouted to the other alumni to say “torture” or “resign” instead of “cheese...
...flew 51 combat missions for the Air Force in World War II, got a Harvard M.B.A. on the GI Bill and hooked up with a back-home politician named Lyndon Johnson. Valenti was the Vice President's press rep on a trip to Dallas in November 1963 and stood next to him on the flight back to Washington when Johnson was sworn in as President. As devoted as one of the big man's beagles, Valenti famously said, "I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my President." In May 1966 he transferred...
...Greenhouse Restaurant and Coffee Shop, a café that has stood at 3 Brattle St. for three decades, closed on Monday, becoming the latest independently owned business in Harvard Square to shut its doors...
...shovel in the ground, and less than an hour later turned up fragments of early 17th century ceramics. Over the next few months, Kelso and a team of volunteers uncovered a series of circular stains in the soil--the marks of logs that had once stood upright but had long since rotted away...