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...husband, the interactive-media designer Edwin Schlossberg. In 1988 she graduated from Columbia Law School and gave birth to their first child, Rose. Soon after, she began researching a book on the Bill of Rights, In Our Defense, with her friend and law-school classmate Ellen Alderman. The two canvassed the country, interviewing professors, attorneys and prison inmates. "She was very, very serious," says Richard Burr, a death-penalty expert who advised the authors. "She had done a lot of homework on specific cases already, which is rare." Rarer still was her gentility. Both times she interviewed Jack Boger, then...
Even after John's death, she will probably stay behind the curtain of the public stage, pouring her energies again into her family life. Her most recent book with Alderman, The Right to Privacy, was read by some as a veiled protest written by a woman uneasy with the public's demands on her personal space. It is actually much more--a scholarly but accessible work that aims, in some small way, to raise public understanding of a complex legal problem. "I hope it will show people there is a process for working things out," she said...
SOMERVILLE--Dorothy Kelly Gay was elected the first female mayor of Somerville yesterday, defeating alderman John Buonomo in a special election to fill the post formerly held by Michael A. Capuano...
Curtatone, a lifelong Somerville resident andBoston College graduate, has served two terms asan at-large alderman and has sat on seven of thecity's committees...
...mayor of Somerville for more than nine years, before that, Capuano served the city as an alderman...