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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech, Triantafillou praised Cambridge's creativity and innovation and residents' strong participation in civic life...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Duehay, Russell Bid Goodbye to City Council | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...worked very hard to bring people together," said Geneva P. Malenfant, vice president of the Cambridge Civic Association, the progressive Cambridge political party to which Duehay belongs...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Honors Duehay for 36 Years of Service | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Still, a half-century of general prosperity in the U.S. has created a climate of toleration, if not enthusiasm, for the free-trade gospel--mostly, indeed, as a gospel of our civic religion rather than out of anyone's buying the math. Alarm about imports tends to ebb and flow with the economy--less in good times, more in bad. So how, in the best times ever, did the World Trade Organization become the global bogeyman? No earnest college kid ever hitched across the country to carry a picket sign against the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mystical Power of Free Trade | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

When the Navy's incompetence resulted in the April 19 death of David Sanes, the struggle of the Vieques people caught the eye of international journalists all over the world, and all political parties and civic groups of Puerto Rico joined under the slogan "Not a single bomb dropped in Vieques." Viequenses saw that for once in three generations they had a fighting chance to rid themselves of a Navy that had totally disregarded their well-being for 58 years...

Author: By Hans S. Perl-matanzo, | Title: Clinton Disappoints Vieques | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...argues that young voters are politically disenfranchised from the process because moneyed interests have too much say. This disengagement from the political process fosters civic disengagement as well because, in McCain's view, younger voters don't feel the government is responsive to them...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder and Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: McCain Courts Young Republicans | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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