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Who are these elected officials from Lowell’s past?
Taking a page from my colleague Dick Howe’s book, I offer this photo of the 1980 Lowell School Committee. Can you identify the members? Who was the Mayor?
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MIT Scholar & Nobel Prize Winner from Lexington Blocked by GOP Senator from Appointment by Obama to Fed Reserve Board
June 5, 2011
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PaulM
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Here’s a fine example of what’s wrong with the national Republican party. Read this guest column in the NYTimes by Peter A. Diamond, an economics professor at MIT and Nobel Prize winner.
Read More »Robert Kennedy Assassinated ~ June 5, 1968
On this day June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) was assassinated in Los Angeles after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary. Shortly after midnight – after winning the California primary election for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, Kennedy was shot as he walked…
Read More »Maureen Dowd in NYT Reminds Me of Neary’s Play
In her opionion column in today’s NYTimes, Maureen Dowd writes about the child-abuser priests in Ireland and a hero among the clergy, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, which reminded me of a dramatic moment in Jack Neary’s play “The Porch.” I hope many of our readers were able to see the Actors Inc.…
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