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...teenager, Weakland was torn between two vocations. After making a creditable soloist's debut, performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with a local orchestra, he considered a musical career. Instead, he became a Benedictine monk at St. Vincent's Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., in 1945. Nonetheless, he kept up his music, earning a master's degree in piano at New York City's Juilliard School and doing doctoral-level work in musicology at Columbia University. He also transcribed medieval works into modern notation for the Play of Daniel, a heralded music-drama introduced...
Weakland was elected arch-abbot of St. Vincent's at a youngish 36. Four years later he was chosen abbot primate of the Benedictine Federation, the Rome-based international coordinator for 220 monasteries with 10,000 priests and brothers...
Many voters were clearly casting their ballots for Ronald Reagan the man, not for the Republican Party. Said Vincent Rakowitz, 65, a retired brewery worker from San Antonio: "He really isn't like a Republican. He's more like an American, which is what we really need." The real message of Tuesday's vote-particularly from young voters who hold the key to future elections-may be that no political party can count on any group's automatic allegiance any more. A candidate with national appeal can win an election without catering to the interests...
...episode may be the last turn in a bizarre race between indicted State Rep. Vincent J. Piro (D-Somerville) and former Somerville alderman Salvatore Albano. Albanto, who ran a sticker campaign after losing the close Democratic primary to Piro, won Somerville by nearly 2000 votes in Tuesday's elections. But Medford results, contested by both candidates, are not expected until sometime this morning...
...bitter campaign for the Somerville state senate seat between Rep. Vincent J. Piro (D-Somerville) and write-in candidate Salvatore Albano came to a stormy head yesterday when the city's community access television station broadcast a reading of Piro's corruption trial transcripts...