Word: sullivans
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Edward “Eddie” J. Sullivan Jr., the newest scion of the city’s 70-year-old political dynasty and a candidate for city council, knows this well. When asked where he will win his votes—a question most council candidates duck out of fear of alienating a constituency—Sullivan answers with a grin: “From the people who have been here a long time...
...council candidate, Sullivan lacks—or declines to show—specific policy knowledge of the city government. And since he makes his living selling environmentally-friendly cleaning supplies, he can’t claim to have much professional experience that is directly applicable to governing a city...
...letter--on gold-embossed stationery--to my friend and fellow writer Joel Stein. Soon after, a trip to Las Vegas was booked, with Joel graciously bringing me along to dine with Robert and his wife Vera beneath Picassos at the Bellagio. There were stories about Richard Burton and Ed Sullivan, choruses of Camelot and a few empty bottles. More Goulet dinners followed, each one unforgettable in its own way. Robert was famous for almost 50 years. He got the best tables and told great stories about people long forgotten. He was aware that fame as a singer and cameo maker...
...Chinese as a saint. "Ordinary people thought he was a good man," says Gao Wenqian, once Zhou's government-appointed biographer and more recently the author of the revisionist (and unofficial) Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, now available in a translation by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan. "He is like a valuable antique in people's living rooms," Gao says. "If you tell them that it's fake or that it has a crack in it, they cannot accept...
...never turned away or walked on the other side of the road when the opportunity for service beckoned.” Fienning lived his love and talent for music as a member of the Krokodiloes, the all-male a capella group, and in the Harvard Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ production of “Ruddigore” in 2005. Friends spoke of Fienning’s exuberance and ability to quickly engage others. Sabrina M. Forte ’08, who met Fienning through their mutual involvement with Phillips Brooks House Association, recalled a party for volunteers...