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”I`m not going to be a candidate for Democratic Party chairman; it`s simply the wrong time for me.”
-Assessor Thomas Hynes, announcing he would not seek to succeed George Dunne as Democratic Party chief in Cook County.
”Who`d want a job like that? Everybody makes their own alliances and to have the party`s endorsement is to have a perceived negative that will be used against you.”
-Ald. Edward Burke, referring to the diminished influence of the party chairmanship.
”This is not an everyday theft.”
-Constance Lowenthal, head of the International Foundation for Art Research, on the theft from a Boston museum of 12 paintings by such artists as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and Manet.
