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A columnist for the Metro section, Cullen previously wrote for the Foreign desk and Spotlight team. He was a member of the 2003 investigative team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal.
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Kevin Cullen
Praising Boston’s firefighters — because their bosses won’t
By Kevin Cullen , Globe Columnist
Instead of praising brave firefighters, the Boston fire commissioner called them “dinosaurs” so he and others can dismantle the department.
Kevin Cullen
O’Malley’s reasoning on BC graduation boycott is flawed
By Kevin Cullen , Globe Staff
Cardinal Sean O’Malley won’t share a stage with Ireland’s leader, who proposed a court-ordered law that would allow abortion to save mothers’ lives.
A wounded heart that keeps giving
By Kevin Cullen , Globe Columnist
It was a blind date. April 26, 1963. They met at Park Street Station. He was 21. She was a year older.“Everybody told me you looked like Elizabeth Taylor,” Joe Dunn said to Maureen Hoey. “You don’t look like Elizabeth Taylor.”She looked him in the eyes, narrowed hers, and said, “You’re no great shakes yourself, buddy.”She resisted the urge to slug him and they went dancing in Jamaica Plain, at the Arbiter, the German social club. They won a twist contest, won 5 bucks, and Maureen Hoey knew right then she was going to marry Joe Dunn.Joe joined the Navy, and then he married Maureen. He went to flight school, volunteered to go to Vietnam. On Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, 1968, US Navy Lieutenant Joe Dunn was piloting his jet over the South China Sea when a Chinese MIG shot him down.They never found him.
Kevin Cullen
The difference between us and them
By Kevin Cullen , Globe Columnist
If you stood outside the funeral home and yelled nonsense, congratulations, because you did what Tamerlan Tsarnaev wanted.