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Deborah Goldberg, former chairwoman of the Brookline Board of Selectmen, told students about her roots in the business world as a member of the family that founded the Northeastern supermarket chain Stop & Shop. Worcester Mayor Tim Murray recounted his struggles as a local official against a hostile Republican state administration. Child psychiatrist Sam Kelley spoke of his boyhood on a chicken farm and his adult work as medical director of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children...
This isn’t the first time Alwaleed’s generosity has been questioned and even rejected. Rudolph W. Giuliani, while mayor of New York City, rejected Alwaleed’s pledge of $10 million to the Twin Towers Fund based on Alwaleed’s supposedly pro-Palestinian statement in response to the attacks...
...application, citing neighborhood interest and Manpriya’s good record. The application will now be considered by the city License Commission. “From the whole time Harvard Provision was there, no one ever accused it of being the cause of student antics,” said Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72. Last night’s Council meeting also touched on emergency evacuation plans. Boston recently posted signs marking emergency evacuation routes, pointing evacuees toward Cambridge. The move prompted Councillor Michael A. Sullivan to propose a policy order urging Cambridge to follow suit...
...Americans, of course, have a somewhat rougher take on the Arab conglomerate's $6.8 billion bid to purchase Britain-based P&O Steam Navigation, which operates in five U.S. ports as well as the Vancouver terminal. Washington's approval of the U.S. takeovers was "reckless, outrageous and irresponsible," Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley said last month. His counterparts in other U.S. cities with prospective Dubai- owned ports have been similarly venomous. And in the U.S. Congress, a bipartisan coalition has vowed to block the deal on the grounds that Dubai has been a way station for terrorists and nuclear smugglers...
He’s been a City Council member since 1994 and served two terms as Cambridge’s mayor, but now Michael A. Sullivan is looking for a promotion.His uncle, Edward J. Sullivan, who has been the top administrator of Middlesex County’s courts for 48 years, announced last week that he will retire in December. And the younger Sullivan said he plans to run for the position.The Sullivan family has played a prominent role in local politics for several generations. Michael A. “Mickey the Dude” Sullivan, grandfather of the current...