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...election ended a 58-day impasse between the moderate Alliance for Change and the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), which each hold four seats on the Council...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: After Impasse, Russell Chosen Mayor | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...more people you hook up to the network, the more valuable the network becomes--not only for the provider of the network, but the individual private user too," said Richard Civille, the executive director of the Center for Civic Networking, who cited the economic benefits of universal access...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Internet Conference Draws Industry Leaders | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...activists spurn the idea of same-sex marriage, suggesting that homosexuals are buying into the corrupt ideology of an outworn institution. Writing in the New York Times, author Frank Browning maintained, "The problem is with the shape of marriage itself. What we might be better off seeking is civic and legal support for different kinds of families that can address the emotional, physical and financial obligation of contemporary life." This is the idea that endorsing marriage is endorsing the traditions of a society that explicitly rejects homosexuality. In other words, don't join them if you can't beat them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISSUES '96: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...besides--adds the politician behind his hand--civic marriage has already been watered down to meet every conceivable request. You don't have to stay together five minutes longer than you want to these days, and certainly nobody is asking you to have children. To be turned down by such a club must be quite galling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAY IN THE EYES OF GOD | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...Application of Human Rights"; Heather L. Clark '96 for "Conquest is a Lie: Joyce, Irish Identity, and the Politics of the Post-colonial in Araby"; Jill A. Corcoran '96 for "Beyond the Bell Curve and 'g': Rethinking Ability and Its Correlates"; Hugh G. Eakin '96 for "Religious Politics and Civic Rhetoric in the Renaissance: The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes and Their Patronage"; Steven A. Engel '96 for "The Legacy of American Hegemony: A Theory of Institutional Change"; and Eliezer M. Finegold '96 for "Musika Mizrahit: From the Margins to the Mainstream...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Hoopes Prizes Awarded for Theses | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

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