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Kerry lowers himself

YOUR INCLUSION of Senator Kerry’s quip in “Quotes of Note’’ Saturday (“Too bad if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska’’) suggested that you need to rethink the meaning of the name for that weekly feature. A senator from the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts should be above such things.

C. R. Krieger
Lowell
 

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