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...former employee of the Cambridge Housing Authority has been charged with larceny after allegedly stealing more than $14,000 from the agency, according to the Middlesex County District Attorney. Maria H. Gomes was arraigned on Dec. 11 on charges stemming from a Dec. 10 police report that accused her of stealing $14,370 through “larceny by continuous scheme,” said Jessica Venezia, a spokeswoman for the District Attorney. The Cambridge Housing Authority, which employs 160 people, oversees more than 2,700 units of affordable housing in the city and administers Section 8 housing vouchers, which...
...trouble for the G.O.P. in almost every state; President Bush?s approval ratings are abysmal, voters trust generic Democrats more than Republicans on every major issue, and Obama and Clinton are both leading McCain even though they?re busy fighting each other. Democrats recently seized congressional seats in conservative districts in Illinois and Louisiana; last night, they grabbed a Mississippi seat in a district that Bush carried...
...potential trouble. Jaafar was killed two days earlier - wounded by a sniper and executed with a bullet in the head, according to residents -during heavy clashes between Hizballah and the Druze followers of Walid Jumblatt, an arch-critic of the Shi'ite party, in the hills of the Aley district above Beirut. Because of the tensions, there must be no shooting in the air during the funeral procession, a Hizballah organizer instructs the mourners. "Save your bullets for the Israelis and the traitors," he adds, referring the supporters of the Western-backed government...
...walking along the road to Laputta, a cylone-shattered delta town teeming with tens of thousands of refugees. Before Cyclone Nargis hit, the population of this sleepy riverside town was 30,000. With the hungry, homeless and bereaved pouring in from the delta - 80,000 have perished in this district alone, according to local aid workers - that refugee population has now reached six figures...
There are tens of thousands more in need in even more remote parts of the district, but the few foreign agencies in town are struggling to help them. "We don't have the means," says Sosa Calo. "To reach affected areas we have to use the river. And most of the boats in the area were destroyed by the cyclone." One area in Laputta district called Pyin Sa Lu was hit badly by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which destroyed houses and almost certainly lives (the junta released no data), then struck again by Cyclone Nargis. This time, more than...