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Adelson is a self-made, risk-loving, Boston-born entrepreneur who, after creating the hugely successful COMDEX computer convention in 1979, helped turn Vegas into the top convention destination. He's a feisty ultraconservative who has managed, seemingly on purpose, to make enemies of all the other casino owners, a pretty friendly group. When his nemesis Wynn invited him to dinner recently to bury the hatchet, Wynn says Adelson refused, recalling that Wynn had once referred to him as Mr. Magoo. Sitting for an interview at a giant conference table, Adelson stops the conversation every time his videographer...
Robert E. Lee’s son would have graduated from Harvard if he hadn’t left to fight for the Confederacy. But while here, William “Rooney” Henry Fitzhugh Lee roomed with Boston-born writer and historian Henry Adams, class...
...Crimson suggested, everyone thought following Conant’s resignation that “Harvard’s next president will, in all probability, be a white, Protestant, Boston-born, Harvard-educated, University Faculty member, between 36 and 52 years old. At least, all his American-born predecessors have been...
DIED. JOE MOAKLEY, 74, a 15-term Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts; of leukemia; in Bethesda, Md. South Boston-born and--bred, Moakley often fought for federal funds on behalf of his hometown, cleaning up Boston Harbor and rerouting a major city highway. In 1989 he headed an investigation into the deaths of six Jesuit priests and their companions in El Salvador, a probe that helped end U.S. military aid to that country...
...probability, be a white, Protestant, Boston-born, Harvard-educated, University Faculty member, between 36 and 52 years old. At least, all his American-born predecessors have been...