Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until this week, the painters had been employed by a contractor hired by Harvard to perform rehabilitation and redecoration on Yard buildings. But two weeks ago, the painters went on strike to seek union recognition, and this week, the firm has laid off its workers and closed its doors, citing the health of the owner...
Enter the Greek shipping tycoon. Seventeen days late and half a world away, Rory Kennedy?s marriage to Mark Bailey went off privately and without fanfare on Monday night. The refuge? Not the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport anymore ? too haunted ? but the Vardinoyiannis compound in Ekali, a suburb of Athens, an estate that not only subsumes an entire block but is most helpfully surrounded by a nine-foot wall. All courtesy of Vardis Vardinoyiannis, whose wife knows the bride?s aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, from a few Special-Olympics bake sales, and all impenetrable to a ravenous press which...
...builders never anticipated was the feisty Jean. A native of Nantes, she had been fascinated by nature since childhood, studied biology in college and got a master's degree in ecology. In 1985 she ran into a former teacher who was trying to organize opposition to the dams. "I went to some meetings with him and was soon gripped by the same passion to save the Loire," she explains...
...weekend John Kennedy Jr.'s plane went down, Townsend was in Hyannis Port helping friends and family deal with the tragedy. "Kathleen has no time for self-pity," says someone close to the family. "She knows she and her family have been blessed in so many ways." She spent last week mostly at home with David and their four daughters...
...night John Kennedy Jr.'s plane went down, his cousin Patrick was not with the rest of the family for the celebration of his cousin Rory's wedding. The third-term Congressman from Rhode Island was performing just about the only other Kennedy ritual that would exempt him from attendance--politicking. As chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee, Kennedy was in San Francisco doing what he does almost every weekend--scooping up campaign cash to help Democrats win back the House of Representatives...