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Interview with Bob Carolla (2) by Brien Williams
Get PDFBiographical NoteRobert J. “Bob” Carolla was born in 1956, in Suffern, New York, to Anthony and Mary Pugliese Carolla. When he was eight years old the family moved from Pearl River, New York, to Canastota, New York, where his father was a high school principal. Bob attended Middlebury College. Upon graduation he worked as the press secretary and political director of the Democratic Conference, which was a project of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). He earned his law degree from Boston University in 1982. He worked with a law firm in Portland, Maine, and volunteered for the joint Brennan-Mitchell campaign in 1982. He accepted another position with ADA in Washington, DC, and was then hired by Mitchell’s Senate office as a legislative assistant. He began by handling foreign policy and defense issues and took on labor and commerce issues during his tenure in that position. At the time of this interview, he was director of media relations for the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Arlington, Virginia.
SummaryInterview includes discussion of: Iran-Contra 1986-1987; minimum wage bill veto; 1986 Maine Central Railroad strike; Portsmouth Dry Dock; Loring Air Force Base; Pan Am 103 terrorist bombing in 1988; Ford Aviation subcommittee and the aviation bill in 1990; working with Senator Ford; Mitchell’s presidential potential; Mitchell’s background; and Maine Peace Mission in 1987
Interview with Bob Carolla (1) by Brien Williams
Get PDFBiographical NoteRobert J. “Bob” Carolla was born in 1956, in Suffern, New York, to Anthony and Mary Pugliese Carolla. When he was eight years old the family moved from Pearl River, New York, to Canastota, New York, where his father was a high school principal. Bob attended Middlebury College. Upon graduation he worked as the press secretary and political director of the Democratic Conference, which was a project of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). He earned his law degree from Boston University in 1982. He worked with a law firm in Portland, Maine, and volunteered for the joint Brennan-Mitchell campaign in 1982. He accepted another position with ADA in Washington, DC, and was then hired by Mitchell’s Senate office as a legislative assistant. He began by handling foreign policy and defense issues and took on labor and commerce issues during his tenure in that position. At the time of this interview, he was director of media relations for the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Arlington, Virginia.
SummaryInterview includes discussion of: the Washington semester program and interning with Americans for Democratic Action; coming to Maine; Robert Kennedy’s 1964 Senate campaign and his visit to Canastota; Mitchell’s 1982 U.S. Senate campaign; Mitchell’s task force on campaign finance reform; becoming a legislative assistant in Mitchell’s Senate office in 1985; foreign policy, defense, labor, and commerce issues; 1986 railroad strike in Maine; Mitchell’s role as chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC); the transition to being majority leader, how the staff handled that, and the question of where Maine issues end and national issues begin; bringing in more staff to handle the growing responsibilities of the majority leader; friendly competition between the Mitchell staff and the Democratic leadership staff; Fish Inspection Bill in 1989-90 and Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens’s opposition to it; volatile personalities in the Senate; Maine’s interest in the DDG Destroyer program and how this affected the Senate majority leader’s race with Sen. Johnston (La.) in 1987-1988; Mitchell’s knack for capturing and simplifying a message; the ways in which Mitchell changed as a candidate between 1974 and 1982; Gayle Cory’s role in Mitchell’s office and wedding gift story; “silver bullet’ constituency case; the Marine Research Bill; and the importance of asking for a vote
»A Universal Narrative of Humanity«. Travelling to the ›Other‹ from Constantinople: Priscus of Panion (5th c. CE) and William of Rubruk (13th c. CE). Monasteries and Sacred Landscapes & Byzantine Connections - Volume 9. 2019 medieval worlds Volume 9. 2019|
No full textTravelling to the ›Other‹ can be fascinating – and very dangerous, especially when the traveller moves to ›uncivilised‹ peoples like Huns and Mongols. The article shows unpredictable parallels between two travel accounts very far from each other in space and time: on the one hand Priscus of Panion, a learned Greek from the 5th century CE, who goes with the Byzantine ambassador to the king of the Huns, the terrible Attila; on the other hand William of Rubruk, a learned Franciscan from the 13th century CE, who writes in Latin a detailed report about his mission to the Mongol Empire. Both cross Constantinople, the city of cities, and both bear witness to the welcoming ›civilisation‹ they found at their destination, beyond borders and boundaries. From a literary perspective, much to our surprise, Byzantium is the key to open the world of the ›Otherness‹
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No full textL'edizione critica si basa su una nuova collazione ed una completa rivisitazione della tradizione manoscritta, entrambe indagini innovative soprattutto riguardo alla raccolta dei cosiddetti Excerpta Constantiniana De legationibus. Fornisce inoltre una dimostrazione completa dello stemma codicum di Prisco ed un accurato apparato critico, entrambi desiderata della filologia da lungo tempo.After a new collation and full reconsideration of all manuscripts, this critical edition provides a complete demonstration of the stemma codicum and an accurate apparatus, both philological desiderata for long. See e. g. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-02-20.htm
Introduzione. Di degenerazione in degenerazione: il potere come elemento (auto)corruttivo
No full textCorruzione, demagogia, rivolte e congiure non sono certo appannaggio esclusivo del mondo contemporaneo: su queste problematiche, anzi, la riflessione è sempre stata viva in tutte le epoche e in tutte le culture. Vittime di tali fenomeni sono da sempre non solo le popolazioni e gli individui, che vengono privati di ogni diritto alla giustizia, ma anche lo Stato stesso che va a subire una (forse) inevitabile decadenza come conseguenza del decadimento morale del singolo. Il volume Degenerating Powers. Il potere che (si) corrompe si propone di osservare le dinamiche di degenerazione del potere nel mondo antico: gli otto contributi – dedicati all’Antichità, all’epoca tardoantica e a quella bizantina – esplorano rappresentazioni filosofico-letterarie ed esempi storici del fenomeno, inteso sia come corruzione, decadimento di strutture, personalità e organismi del potere, sia come effetto degenerante del potere sul suo detentore. I lavori contenuti nel volume offrono così uno spaccato sulle percezioni che le differenti epoche hanno avuto nei confronti del fenomeno, senza tralasciare gli spunti di riflessione sulle dinamiche di evoluzione e gestione del potere nel presente.Degenerating Powers. Il potere che (si) corrompe [Power which deteriorates] takes into consideration ancient degenerating political power and its dynamics. Eight papers on Antiquity, Late Antiquity and Byzantium explore philosophical-literary representations and historical examples of the phenomenon. They deal both with corruption, decay of structures, personalities and bodies of power, on the one hand, and with the degenerating effect of power on its holder(s), on the other. The volume offers insights into the perceptions that different ages have had of the phenomenon, as well as reflections on the dynamics of power evolution and management to the present day
Carolla Day Nickerson - High School Graduation
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Layers of authorship in the tenth century : Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos and his "excerptor(es)"
Get PDFMultilayered authorship can be found in the Excerpta Historica Constantiniana (EC), a Byzantine collection from the tenth century. The contribution focuses on the tension between the EC primary sources and the EC context as such, exploring the conceptual tool of Distributed Authorship and engaging both with the sender/receiver functions and with the power relations between the emperor and the excerptor(es). The EC Prooemium draws on the New Testament, namely, on the epistle to the Ephesians, which in turn sheds light on Constantine VII’s cultural, political and religious agenda.Negli Excerpta Historica Constantiniana (EC), silloge bizantina del X secolo, si può ravvisare una autorialità a più livelli (multilayered authorship). L’articolo lumeggia la tensione tra le fonti primarie e il contesto degli EC in quanto tali, esplorando lo strumento concettuale della Distributed Authorship, esaminando le funzioni di mittente/destinatario e il rapporto di potere tra l’imperatore e l’excerptor (o meglio gli excerptores). Il Proemio degli EC evidenzia una ripresa esplicita dal Nuovo Testamento, in particolare dall’epistola agli Efesini, che a sua volta getta luce sul programma culturale, politico e religioso di Costantino VII
Pia Carolla (éd.), Priscus Panita. Excerpta et fragmenta, edidit Pia Carolla (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana 2000)
No full textPia Carolla (éd.), Priscus Panita. Excerpta et fragmenta, edidit Pia Carolla (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana 2000). In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 68, 2010. pp. 297-298
Pia Carolla (éd.), Priscus Panita. Excerpta et fragmenta, edidit Pia Carolla (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana 2000)
No full textPia Carolla (éd.), Priscus Panita. Excerpta et fragmenta, edidit Pia Carolla (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana 2000). In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 68, 2010. pp. 297-298
Carolla Day Nickerson - High School Graduation
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