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...years, the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's liberal political group, has dominated Cambridge politics with a platform of "good government" and a biennial slate of pro-tenant City Council candidates...
...wholesale privatization of American life may give conservatives goose pimples, but it also produces a kind of civic isolation. And Fortress America, ringed with gated communities and checkpoints and motion detectors, is a foreboding example of self-sufficiency. Says urban planner Oscar Newman: ``People who live in these communities tend not to participate very much in the affairs of the surrounding communities. I find that a little scary.'' Privatization is also a lot less liberating for the millions of Americans who can't afford their own private police, schools, street cleaners and country clubs...
Geneva T. Malenfant, vice president of the Cambridge Civic Association, agreed that a future supermarket is unlikely...
...ROTC's advantages (be they civic or selfishly pecuniary) outweigh its faults then, having exposed the faults, participate fully in the program. The spectacle of this community trying to have its cake and eat it too reveals a sophistry wholly at odds with our central purpose, the pursuit of truth. "Trimming" is as demeaning to an institution as it is to an individual. --E. L. Pattullo
Galluccio, like Walsh, is an independent. He will maintain the council's balance of power between independent councillors and those supported by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association...