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...hired gun brought in to improve ties between Mass. Hall and Boston’s city hall, Grogan opened Harvard’s coffers to needy institutions in the city and kept Boston’s powerful mayor on speed dial...
...Don’t jump the gun,” he warned...
...that women's support for defense spending--even for expensive, untried concepts like a missile-defense system--shot up to levels roughly equal with men's. Another was the doubling in the number of women signing up for the National Rifle Association's courses on how to handle a gun. Those behaviors were...
Mertz credits feminist Betty Friedan with turning her life around. "It wasn't until The Feminine Mystique," she says, "that I began to get those 'clicks' that she talks about, and they came like a machine gun." By the time the epiphanies stopped, Mertz's marriage was over, as well as her days as a housewife. "I'm not knocking homemaking," she is quick to say. "I would have hated to miss my children's first words and first steps. I just wish there had been more options for us women...
Mertz's success as an author came like a machine gun as well. Her talent surfaced early, while she was growing up in Oak Park, Ill. Called on to write a sonnet in high school, she produced something so professional that her teacher suspected her of plagiarism. When she took up writing again, after being inspired by Friedan's polemic, she wrote three books for which she couldn't find a publisher. With the fourth she was successful, and has remained so ever since. She turns out about one mystery a year, and tries to go to Egypt just...