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What this adds up to, says Ramseur, is a vigorous shakeup of the city's Plan E form of government, which was instituted in the 1940s to curb corruption and political patronage. It was these reform efforts that led to the creation...
...under siege. Not long after the accident, a TV reporter beat him to the mailbox and rifled through his letters until neighbors chased her away. Other journalists have surrounded his home, flashing cameras through windows and banging on doors. Still others have stolen bags of garbage from the curb. Then there are the sneers of strangers, the steady stream of Hazelwood songs and jokes, the death threats to his family from anonymous callers, some of whom promise to blow the pretty yellow house to smithereens. Whatever respite Hazelwood may have enjoyed as the story faded from the front pages probably...
Apparently oblivious to his predicament, the mayor tries to remain playful. As he strolls through his city, cars honk, supporters yell, tourists gawk. A car pulls to the curb and a woman shouts, "I see you're still throwing up bricks!" a reference to a game of hoops he played with Jesse Jackson for the TV cameras. He grins, turns back toward the car, bends his knees and launches a mock jumper. The form is bad, the follow-through is strained, but his fans cackle with glee...
...year's crises also centered on the failure of tolerance, on the community's inability to live together peacably. Outrage flared in March when Cambridge police pulled two Black students off a University shuttle bus, searched them and left them on the curb without explanation. Police said they mistook the pair for a white suspect in a nearby convenience store robbery and defended the officers' behavior as "proper and professional...
...frame the question of pluralism in another, more violent language. On one March night, two Black students run to catch a University shuttle bus but are pulled off by Cambridge police, searched and left without explanation on the curb. Ask the police why they acted so, and they answer they saw two men running on a street after a nearby convenience store robbery. Granted, they say, the suspect in the robbery was a single white male, but under the mercury lights in the Square perhaps skin color is too deceptive...