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...better watch itself. The passive-aggressive way of (not) doing things, perfected by clerks of the U.S. Postal Service, has spread like a drug-resistant strain of civic anger. A real insecurity and confused apprehension that something has gone basically wrong mutate by stages into free-floating sullen grievance and ballistic self-pity, a boll-weevil mentality of busy stealth, the victim/employee/citizen as secret guerrilla. Alienation...
INTENSE ATTENTION HAS BEEN FOCUSED on HIV testing as a result of boxer Tommy Morrison's riveting disclosures in the past few weeks [HEALTH, Feb. 26]. But there is a serious risk that legislative, civic and sports leaders will jump to HIV testing as the solution without doing anything further. That would be a shame. If HIV testing is all that is done, little will be accomplished to either prevent the transmission of HIV among boxers or to improve boxing's safety. Those who advocate HIV testing to the exclusion of other solutions take as automatic the premise that bleeding...
...meeting last night the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) outlined its plan to regain the majority of city council and school committee seats...
...Cambridge's municipal government. Russell says, "We don't need to make any dramatic political changes." Such a legislative laissez-faire stance is probably how she got into office in the first place, given the stubborn partisan voting of city council members. After all, would the more liberal Cambridge Civic Association have funneled their four votes her way if she was promising action? Nevertheless, we would like to offer an agenda for the city so that Russell can lead while supported by a greater consitutuency than her fellow council members...
According to Cambridge pundit Glen S. Koocher '71, Duehay made local history by crossing over from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and supporting Alliance candidate Sheila T. Russell, even though the Alliance for Change and the CCA candidates had four votes each...