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...Over the long run, gentrification and development is sapping the political base of the Independent councilors," says Clifford Truesdell, secretary of the city committee. "But as...the last election shows, the condo vote may help them in the short term...
...years ago, the "condo vote" landed squarely behind Mary Allen Wilkes, the "condo candidate," but Wilkes fell short of the total number of votes required by Cambridge's Hare proportional voting system. When she finally was eliminated in the tallying, most of her votes transferred to Independents (i.e. voters who supported Wilkes first, backed Independents as second choices). A major beneficiary was incumbent City Councilor Thomas W. Danehy, whose North Cambridge neighborhood is experiencing gentrification similar to that in the eastern sector of the city...
Most observers attribute the transfers to Independents to a single issue--the city's anti-conversion ordinance, passed in August 1981. Without the issue this time around, they say there will probably be no condo candidate and the votes are likely to be up for grabs...
After the marriage Vincent hopes to study medicine "Eventually, I plan to be a rich doctor with a yacht in the backyard." Anna say that he also wants to own a condo in the Florida Keys. She plans to study neurobiology...
...such deceptions. "Many forms of tax evasion-the ideas-seem to start in California and spread elsewhere, just as fads start out here," says Ron Saranow, chief of the IRS Criminal Investigations Division for the region. One of the local figures who most irritate California tax authorities is Armen Condo, a self-styled "maverick minister" who heads an organization called Your Heritage Protection Association, based in Orange County. With a dues-paying flock of 15,000, Condo took in an estimated $2 million in three years while preaching an unusual gospel: since the U.S. dollar cannot be redeemed in gold...