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Seven-term City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan announced two weeks ago that he would not run for reelection this fall and would instead focus on his position as clerk of the Middlesex County courts. And fellow seven-termer Anthony D. Galluccio, the frontrunner for the state senate seat being vacated by Jarrett T. Barrios ’90, has said that he will leave the council if he is elected to the senate...
...assumption," he contends, "is that Jeremiah wasn't written by a later writer, but a person writing at the time. I don't know why a later writer trying to create a legendary basis for [a later Jewish regime] would want to make reference to a third-ranked Babylonian clerk. This argues that the document is accurate in its references to the world around...
...addition to his academic work, Benkler was also an associate to Ropes & Gray in Boston and a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer. A 1994 graduate of Harvard Law School, Benkler also received an international law degree from Tel-Aviv University...
...gays have played an important, less noticed role in Dallas' evolution. Over the past decade, a large and politically powerful lesbian and gay community has emerged. Both the Dallas sheriff and the county judge--an Old West title meaning chairman of the county commissioners--are openly gay. The district clerk is gay too, and Dallas is home to what is said to be the largest gay church in the world, the Cathedral of Hope, which has 3,500 members, a full choir, a violinist and long-stemmed roses in the bathroom. Dallas' fund-raising dinner for the Human Rights Campaign...
...aren't entirely irrational. A creepy robotic caller left messages across the city on election day: "Ed Oakley has a radical gay agenda for Dallas ... Dallas needs strong conservative leadership." It's unclear who financed the messages, but they didn't keep Oakley from making the runoff. Dallas district clerk Gary Fitzsimmons, who was targeted during his 2006 campaign with a robo-call mentioning his homosexuality, says he thinks the message ended up helping him. "At least 100,000 houses received that call, but I think it backfired. I had elderly couples coming up to me saying it wasn...