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Goard lawyer Young claimed in his opening statement that he would demonstrate that "no Democratic applications were incomplete and voided." Richman claimed just the opposite. But the burden of proof is on the Democrats to prove that some nefarious inequity took place and "adversely affected the sanctity of the election...
"Chapter 11 just means they're trying to take a breather while they reorganize their assets and liabilities--which can still be affected by the lawsuit," writes Jonathan Zittrain, executive director of Harvard's Berkman Center on Law and Technology, in an e-mail message.
The idea, sparked by a local non-profit group, is to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote for members of the Cambridge School Committee and City Council. Students have rallied behind the proposal--about 50 attended a recent meeting with city councillors to present their case. They rightly...
Unfortunately, the deal-breakers squaring off on opposite sides of the North Atlantic are among the least affected by the possibility of rising temperatures and swelling seas. According to projections by the United Nations, Bangladesh could lose up to 16 percent of its land area to the Indian Ocean. Semi...
In all, by the estimate of civil rights attorney Penda Hair of the Washington-based Advancement Project, "hundreds, maybe thousands" of votes were affected, more than enough to have swung a razor-thin election. Whether all this was the result of a racist plot or a by-product of insensitive...