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...struggle, in each race, has been to prove liberal stripes while appealing to a broad swath of people. The senate seat for which Galluccio and Barrios vie, along with relative unknown Carlos DeMaria, contains Cambridge’s wealthier neighborhoods as well as several nearby blue-collar towns...
...district for which Decker and Demakis struggle—newly redrawn—is about evenly split by the Charles River. It contains Boston’s tony Back Bay and Beacon Hill neighborhoods but 45 percent of the district falls in Cambridge’s more blue collar areas...
Each candidate struggled last night to make a broad appeal to voters in what is a highly diverse Senate district that includes the tony Agassiz neighborhood of Cambridge and the blue-collar towns of Revere and Everett, as well as Harvard’s Yard dorms, the Law School, Adams House and the Quad...
...Sopranos has always been masterly at being timeless and up to the moment at once. In the late '90s, the show was a tale of moral struggles in boom times. It analogizes even better to the white-collar scandals of 2002. "The Enrons, the Grubmans and the Global Crossings ... those guys are bigger criminals than the Sopranos," says Pantoliano. "The thing I like about The Sopranos is that if you cross someone, there is retribution. If you are a rat, you will be punished...
...corporate executives are no better than common thieves when they betray their employees and steal from their investors." He noted that the WorldCom executives could face as much as 65 years in prison, which legal experts dismissed as prosecutorial hyperbole. Yet as former federal prosecutor and Los Angeles white-collar defense lawyer Mark Beck notes, "The criminal sanction is so severe that it can motivate someone to play ball and become a government witness in exchange for leniency...