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"It was difficult to sit back and watch the village leaders taking money from the farmers who worked so hard to pay their children's school fees," Maren writes of his Peace Corps stint in Kenya.
After a brief stint living in the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Duke Cosimo I and his wife, Eleonora of Toledo, acquired the palace from the bankrupt Pitti merchant family in 1549 as the Medici’s official residence; it was enlarged and embellished substantially over the centuries.
This is not as glorious as another stint as secretary of state, but the 1999 Kissinger will happily accept the assignment.
"This is what I want to do - to give back to the community," said Mazzariello, who worked under Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes from 1990 to 1993, followed by a stint as the Board of Education's chief prosecutor.
Now, however, I paused in my labors after a short stint of alphabetizing and partially annotating a few recent additions, to wit: