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...would be prime minister one day. Latham has spent his entire adult life making his way up from the grass roots: working as an aide to the retired Whitlam, then in the office of New South Wales Labor Opposition leader Bob Carr (now Premier), as a Liverpool City councillor and, since 1994, as the local M.P. for Werriwa. He's diligent, serious and bookish - and a seeker of political tutors. His Labor contemporaries never doubted he'd attain the leadership; some of them, however, were surprised by how quickly he got there, how cleverly he played Caucus, the Parliament...
Murphy and Councillor David P. Maher, the co-chairs of the council’s Ordinance Committee, met individually with Harvard officials, neighborhood residents and other council members last fall to try to reach a compromise...
...When you’re in a community that has been denied their rights and privileges for such a long time, then you will understand our impatience,” E. Denise Simmons, an openly gay councillor and one of the co-sponsors of the order, told the council at their Nov. 24 meeting. “Whether the state wants to give us licenses or not, I think Cambridge should do it anyway...
...push forward now would simply drag the process out in a legal quagmire that would probably take more than 180 days,” said Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87, the other co-sponsor of the original order. “This is an exciting time and I want to move forward as quickly...
State Representative Timothy J. Toomey, who also serves as a city councillor, voted against the proposed amendment and said he hopes it will not pass in the legislature again...