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...issue of the City Manager is probably the most important one the new council will face. The City Manager Robert W. Healy's contract is up for extension next year and Triantafillou was one of his major opponents. Under the current weak mayor system, the manager is more powerful than the council. He writes regulations and controls public works, public safety and city financing. Healy has successfully navigated the turbulent waters of city politics for 18 years, but he has fallen out of favor with several city councillors because of his lack of action to secure low-cost housing...
...mayor of the city council may well be current vice-mayor and top vote-getter Anthony D. Galluccio. Galluccio is one of the more business-friendly and conservative (by Cambridge standards) members of the perennially liberal council. He would make a good mayor, having served under the traditional liberal mayor Francis H. Duehay '55. Galluccio has shown that he is not afraid to face up to the changing reality of Cambridge while other members have their hearts set on bringing rent control back and their heads stuck in the sand. The support Galluccio has received from Cambridge voters...
Dorm Crew has always paid more generously than many student jobs, a trend that has continued. The current base salary is $9 per hour, 15 cents higher than last year...
...Work submitted for that issue will be judged in light of its relevance to that theme. Past issues have focused on people such as Seamus Heaney and Elizabeth Bishop and ideas such as love and pleasure. A very professional and polished publication, The Harvard Review has existed in its current incarnation only since the spring of 1992. Dream about getting published here, and in the mean time, just read...
...year-olds who are picking up the habit. Between 1965 and 1990, the percentage of Americans who smoked plummeted from 44 percent to 24.7 percent, a drop the CDC likes to cite as "one of the 10 most notable public health achievements of this century." Current figures are well above the agency's goal, which is to see only 15 percent of the population smoking by the year 2000. It doesn't look like that's going to happen, in part because young adults' smoking rates are on the upswing, increasing from 24.5 percent in 1990 to 28.7 percent...