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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haven't been neighborhood studies done like this since the '70s," said Aaron Gornstein, CCDD neighborhood planner for East Cambridge. He added that the main purpose of the study was to document the changes that have taken place in the neighborhood and to determine what residents see as the area's major problems...
...court split 5 to 4, Kennedy voted with a conservative majority eight times, including the stunning decision to reconsider Runyon. Says University of Virginia government professor David O'Brien, a court specialist: "I sense clearly that the court will make a strong turn to the right in the area of social discrimination." If so, the ideological legacy of Ronald Reagan may last well into the 21st century...
Sontag recalls herself as "a psychologically abandoned child." Until she was six, she and her younger sister were raised mostly by aunts, in the New York area. Her parents, Polish Jews who came to the U.S. while young, spent most of their time in China, where her father was a fur trader. After his death there from tuberculosis, her mother returned to the U.S. and remarried. (Sontag uses her stepfather's last name.) In time, the new family ended up living in Canoga Park, near Los Angeles, though it would be truer to say that Sontag lived in books...
Timothy Watkins, an engineer who had been dispatched to the area by the Cambridge DPW to check the situation, said that there was nothing out of ordinary with the working of the pipe known officially as Combined Sewer Overflow number nine...
...Thursday, one could still see a black, filmy substance coming from the submerged pipe and smell a foul stench emanating from the area...