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...another local group-the Cambridge chapter of Citizens for Participation in Political Action-released its slate of council candidates last week. The liberal CPPAX gave the nod to Mary Ellen Preusser, Francis Duehay '55, Alice Wolf, David Sullivan, Saundra Graham and Wendy Abt. That slate mirrors the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) ticket, except for the omission of tenant advocate Bob White...
...endorsement of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) in midsummer--received only a scattering of votes at the Rent Control Task Force convention yesterday. She is the first candidate in recent memory to be endorsed by the CCA and yet not win the backing of the Task Force...
...smaller juries, streamlined rules, less-than-unanimous verdicts. The grand-jury system, which has many similar shortcomings, is being increasingly bypassed in some areas. Despite its inconveniences and irritations, which prompt many people to try to avoid it, jury service nevertheless can be, and often is, the most rewarding civic duty that average citizens get a chance to perform, far more so than voting or paying taxes. It is our communal enactment of the democratic idea...
Living with the German presence, the people of Paris faced problems more immediate than Hitler's plans for the 1000-year Reich. As a civic entity and as individuals, they had to make choices--between collaboration and resistance, between survival and honor. These choices, along with the grander cultural confrontation between German and Frenchman, are the subjects of Paris in the Third Reich, by David Pryce-Jones. The book combines a selective narrative history of the years 1940-1944, a section of interviews with characters who saw the occupation from widely differing perspectives, and a collection of photographs of everyday...
...sees this as an atrophy of "the number of channels of civic concern." Official wrongdoing or shocking conditions in local schools or hospitals often require persistent and exhaustive reporting. "What are the odds, if you have one paper instead of two, that it will go after the story?" Bogart asks. Of course, local television does investigations, which can be effective when the evidence is largely visual. Too often, however, such stories are mere exchanges of charges and countercharges in interviews by news personalities with too little command of the subject. A newspaper is much better at giving enough facts...