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Other sources in the department confirm that Vellucci was frequently absent from the office, but do not know whether the absences were legitimate. The mayor frequently signed out for the day to attend to city business--especially duties attached to the Cambridge School Committee, of which he is chairman--but the time sheets that record each employee's comings and goings are not open to the public without the employee's consent...
...saying that he never went to work, just that he took unauthorized time off," he says. The question of how much unauthorized time Vellucci took is a difficult one--he says only that "sources indicate it happened fairly often." Unfortunately, the fact that Vellucci was frequently absent from the office does not prove much, for without access to the time sheets it is almost impossible to know whether any of the absences were authorized. And if, as Kindleberger implies, Vellucci could alter the time sheets after the fact, to "cover his ass," it may never be possible to answer...
Moynihan's Eliza commands the action because of the connections she suggests; Andrew Agush claims the stage as Higgins precisely because he has forged no links. Agush's absent-minded professor moves entirely in a world of his own making. Fixed on the idea rather than the person who's talking, his tongue whetting his lips and his eyes twitching, Agush's Higgins can only understand Eliza's predicament once it is placed in his own scheme of things. "Take your hands out of your pockets, Henry," his mother scolds and Higgins obeys. But a moment later the hands...
...Absent players, tiebreakers, and three set matches that stretched on past dinnertime almost turned an expected jaunt in New Hampshire into a disaster as the Harvard women's tennis team barely squeezed past a surprisingly strong UNH squad...
...armed camp may be beginning to abate. The fights are far fewer and disciplinary suspensions are way down over last year. At the same time, state troopers still patrol the hallways of Southie High. Still, observers estimate that as many as one-third of the enrolled students are absent from the school each day. The mood of Southie High administrators, then, might well be termed one of cautious optimism...