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...elected to the Cambridge School Committee. But his political life did not really begin heating up until the early 1970s, when he decided to run for the City Council under the wing of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association...
Despite his naiveté, his professional determination and a sense of civic duty compelled him to accept the position—even though “every important and sensible person that I knew said, ‘Whatever else you do, don’t take this...
...describes the meeting in a letter published in the New York Review of Books in February 2005. “He urged me to do my civic duty, and to name names,” Kamin writes, adding that he also learned that Bundy was in regular contact with the Boston office of the FBI and that he had had advance knowledge of Kamin’s subpoena by McCarthy’s committee...
Paul Berkeley, the president of the Allston Civic Association, said that Thursday’s report contained few surprises for Allston residents...
...forced to identify their confidential sources. In this case, however, it is alleged that a crime has been committed: disclosure of the name of a CIA covert operative. If that is true, those who received the illegally leaked information are accessories to the crime. It is a person's civic duty to report a crime, and that duty overrides journalistic privilege. To withhold a source's identity is an abdication of civic responsibility...