Cathleen Marie Compton

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Talking politics

‘Florence is the new Florence!’ So says the slogan echoed at Palazzo Vecchio to mark the beginning of a new and vibrant phase in the city’s life. That new energy ...

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Jackie sent me

On November 4, 1966, while in Geneva, Ted Kennedy re--ceived a telephone call from his sister-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy telling him of the flood in Florence and urging him to go there.  So it was that the first-term Senator from Massachusetts became a mud angel and

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