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With the strong showings of Davis and first-time council candidate Marjorie Decker, it looks like Cambridgeport voters showed out in force for this election...
Marjorie C. Decker grew up in public housing in Cambridgeport, where her parents still live...
...City Council shake-up never happened last week. Neither the renegade Republican nor the precocious student won a place on the council, meaning that it is likely to be business as usual in Central Square. The two open spaces were filled by political veterans Marjorie Decker and Jim Braude while incumbent Katherine Triantafillou was bumped out in a narrow race with School Committee member David P. Maher...
...immediate danger of disappearing, but the traditional linguistic features associated with it have been replaced by new distinctive characteristics. A Bostonian might not say "cah" any more - for car - but they will say potato puff for tater tot. Sprinkles will be jimmies. And they'll use terms like "triple-decker" and "grinder," which don't really appear outside of the region. Vaux says he could probably identify where a person is from, by asking under ten questions regarding such idiosyncracies in language. He explains that one of the main reasons the world's languages vary so widely involves...
...other incumbents--Kathleen L. Born, Henrietta S. Davis, Anthony D. Galluccio, Kenneth E. Reeves '72, Michael A. Sullivan and Timothy J. Toomey Jr.--were reelected. Challengers James S. Braude, Marjorie C. Decker and David P. Maher will also join the council...