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Long regarded as one of the nation's most progressive communities, Cambridge residents have been riding the Democratic bandwagon since the depression days of the 1930s. Even after the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt, there were two consecutive U.S. Congressmen from this district who gave the area a reputation for being the nation's modern "cradle of leadership...
This is a bandwagon that can use all the hopping on it can get. Twenty million dollars has been raised since March 6, according to Kragen, on behalf of USA for Africa alone. He expects to have $50 million by summer's end. By that time, the first medical and financial support should already have reached Africa, and a single song will have begun, really and directly, to save lives...
...began in 1980 after she and her husband were robbed of $500,000 worth of jewelry. Her group also rates judges, advises victims on dealing with police and courts, and lobbies for laws to aid victims. Since the Goetz case, Morrow claims, "every legislator seems to want on the bandwagon to support a victims bill of rights...
...MAJORITY OPINION has accomplished an interesting feat--while simultaneously jumping on the bash-Meese-forever-without-evidence bandwagon, it manages at the same time to smear a White House advisor who has done nothing improper, has never been officially accused of any wrong-doing, and is in any case leaving the Government...
...James) shortly after he and his wife began a 25-year stint as social workers in predominantly Chicano East Los Angeles. James says that his intention was never to deceive but simply "to write about Mexicans from the inside. I wasn't trying to jump on the ethnic bandwagon." Besides, he liked being the impudent young Santiago who is "like me when I'm drunk." That said, he reports that Santiago is already busy at work on his second novel...