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...this is not DiCara's first election. He has been a political animal ever since his arrival at Boston Latin School, where he eventually won what he considers his most important election-Senior Class President. "I think he'd been campaigning since he got there in seventh grade," one classmate said Thursday...
...DiCara's political career has not exactly been on the wane during his stay at Harvard. His name started appearing on ballots as soon as the Class of '71 arrived in Cambridge. He made it onto the Freshman Council, though losing the race for chairmanship to the class's other aspiring politician, John Hanify of HUC (Harvard Undergraduate Council) fame. Later, DiCara became a part of the HUC, SFAC (Student-Faculty Advisory Committee), and the Quincy House Committee, which he chaired his final year...
...DiCara's style of politics is based on the ability to match names with faces. "Some people play football, some are good in chemistry, I can remember names," he explained a week ago. "I do have trouble with girls' names,"he admitted. To help him keep tabs on Harvard students, DiCara files all four freshman registers on a shelf in his Quincy room...
...Boston Latin he knew everyone and their grandmother and aunt," classmate John Diodato recalled. And when driving through his Dorchester neighborhood Monday night, DiCara tooted and waved to young boys whom he could identify despite the darkness...
...politicians is encyclopedic. He's written detailed position papers on road construction and redistricting and knows which politicians represent each district in and around Boston. "I'm probably the only one in the room, and maybe the city, who knows the names of all the State Senators," DiCara mused while eating chile Monday in Quincy House Dining Hall...