March 16, 2001

Easing Political Cynicism With Civic Involvement

By DEREK C. BOK

On a warm spring day in 1985, late in the afternoon, I found myself in Washington seated in the office of that quintessential

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Irish politician, Boston's own Speaker of the House, Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill. I had just spent the best part of a week talking to

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