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...that I was outraged, though hardly surprised, when President Bok decided to challenge the results of the union representation election and to surround his challenge with high-sounding rhetoric about fairness. Maintaining checklists of voters and escorting prospective supporters to the polls are common practices in every civic election in which I've ever participated. Why is it that what's fair in Cambridge is not fair at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union | 5/27/1988 | See Source »

Several members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), which supports more restrictive zoning measures, said they feared the project might waste city employees' time...

Author: By Anne F. Palmer, | Title: Walsh Proposes Rezoning City | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

Peterkin took office in the wake of a bitter political battle that resulted in the firing of his predecessor, William Lannon, and School Committee members said he has unified the normally polarized board. Like the City Council, the School Committee has long been a battleground between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association and the more conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independents...

Author: By Shawna H. Yen, | Title: Peterkin Accepts Milwaukee Position | 5/11/1988 | See Source »

...must be translated into assimilation and loss of our culture. Rather, we argue that the maintenance of one's own culture is essential in an effort to respect and appreciate dissimilar ones. Ms. Williams and those who concur with her are obviously ignorant of the Greek affiliations of such civic luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, Mayor Thomas Bradley, Shirley Chisholm, Mr. John Jacobs, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Dr. William Cosby, Andrew Young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Fraternities and Sororities | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

Wolf and Duehay, members of the pro-rent control Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), have drawn fire from many of their traditional allies among local community activists, who say the change would create yet another loophole in a code they already consider...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Wolf, Duehay Push Rent Law Exemption | 4/26/1988 | See Source »

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