Word: towns
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Glenn S. Koocher '71, a Cambridge political analyst, described the 1996 showdown between Galluccio and Wolf as a "classic town-versus-gown" election. The race pits Galluccio, "the lunch-pail democrat" against Wolf, "the limousine liberal," quipped Koocher, who hosts a local public-access television show on city politics...
...confidence booster just to know that we can play, and probably could have beaten a Top 10 team," McCarthy said. "And it's the same situation for B.U.--just another cross-town rival...
...case has riveted the Philadelphia-Wilmington area for a year and a half, mostly because of the small-town renown of its central characters. Thomas Capano, the father of four daughters who separated from his wife Kay in 1995, is an unlikely murder suspect. A former deputy attorney general and legal counsel to ex-Governor Michael Castle, he was most recently employed at a prominent law firm as head of its bond department. "Tom was very much the consummate inside guy," says Charlie Butler, also a former deputy attorney general. "He was always fixing things. He spent a long time...
...bizarre incident in Tucson, Ariz., a group of skinheads built a Nazi bunker on city property (it was bulldozed) and then, a few weeks later, mounted a cow's head on the hood of a 1970 Ford Thunderbird and drove around town shouting white-power slogans. Many of today's race-hate groups, however, are more sophisticated. According to the TIME/CNN survey, 75% of white teens and 55% of black teens say they have access to a computer with Internet capability at home or school. There they may find that hate groups are also plugging in and logging on. Rabbi...
...heirs, Christie's, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, struck a complicated guarantee deal whereby the four Ganz children would get a total of $120 million, no matter what the pictures realized on the block. Then came a thick calendar of promotional dinner parties (catered in a town house hung with the Ganz artworks), symposiums on Picasso and the collection, private and public viewings, and a general media blitz...