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...parade also offers evidence of the city's shift to the political left since its last celebration. Grass-roots activist groups like the Cambridge Eviction Free Zone and the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee took part, a reminder of the stunning abolition of rent control--for decades a liberal rallying cry--which state voters handed to Cambridge residents...
Outside the convention hall, however, Jackson denounced the president's signature of a strict welfare reform bill. About a dozen other activist group protested Clinton's moderate stances...
Marshall, Harvard's top lawyer since October 1992, is well-respected in Boston's legal community. She has worn many hats: anti-apartheid student activist, Boston Bar Association president and partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart, one of Boston's top firms, specializing in copyright and intellectual-property...
...getting all seven elected--which gave him de facto control of a 30-block stretch. He flirted with the idea of running himself, then stashed those ambitions forever. "I preferred to be the cat with nine lives," he says. "If we lost, I was still employed." Says West Side activist Ross Graham: "Some of us wanted to change the world. Dick wanted...
...President has told interviewers that he sees no inconsistency between these two statements. Yeah. Sure. But the conventional view, not only from foes but also from White House aides, is that they typify a split of Clinton's term into distinct--but dissonant--halves. Stage One, an activist, anything-is-possible phase lasted from Inauguration to November 1994. In the public mind it was marked by fumbling, waffling, minor scandals, disastrous appointments and above all the grandiose health-care plan that was to be Clinton's monument but that died ignominiously in congressional committees. The voters spoke, sweeping Democrats...