Boston, MA - 3/26/20 - Gov. Charlie Baker holds a press conference in the Gardner Auditorium at The State House on March 26, 2020. Baker and Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders addressed attempting to secure more pieces of personal protection equipment and mobile schooling concerns. (Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe) Reporter: Topic:
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FILE -- Adam Schlesinger performs with the string quartet Ethel, at Damrosch Park in New York, July 28, 2010. Schlesinger, a singer-songwriter for the bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy who had an award-winning second career writing songs for film, theater and television, died on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. He was 52. The cause was complications of the coronavirus, said Josh Grier, his lawyer.
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The New England Patriots customized Boeing 767 passenger jet taxis at T.F. Green Airport, in Warwick, R.I., Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. The team are to fly on the aircraft, which is painted with the team's logo and red-white-and-blue colors, and includes the Pats' five Lombardi trophies painted on the tail, on their way to Florida, where they are to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Robert Kraft
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